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CENTENNIA 




OF THE 



Congregational Church, 



HINSDALE, MASS., 




IZED DECEMBER 17th, 1795-. 



T 28th, 1895. 



PITTSFIELD, MASS. 

PRESS OF THE SUN PRINTING COMPANY. 

1896. 



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CONTENTS. 




Addkesses : 

Address of Welcome, by Rev. Mr. Laird, . 

Address, by Rev. Edward Taylor, D. D.. 

Address, by Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D., L. H. D 

Address, by Rev. Chauncey Goodrich, D. D.. 

Address, by Rev. Daniel Merrinian, D. D., 

Address, by Rev. Rufus Apthorp, 

Address, by Judge James M. Barker. 

Address, by Rev. Dr. Judson Smith. 

Address, by Rev. G. H. Flint, 
Alphabetical Index op Members, 
A Woman's Recollections, by Mrs. Elizabeth Hinsdale Hall. 

Closing Remarks, ....... 

Centennial Committees, ..... 

Copies of Original Papers, ..... 

Centennial List of Members, ..... 

Early History of the Church, by Hon. C. J. Kittredge, 
Extracts from Letters, . 

Finances and Benevolences, by James Hosmer, 

Former Pastors Deceased : 

Rev. John Leland and Caleb Knight, by Miss Sarah Bo wen. 
Rev. William A. Hawley, by Hon. C. J. Kittredge, 
Rev. S. W. Banister and Rev. P. K. Clark; by Rev. Edson L. C 
Rev. Ephraim Flint, D. D., by William J. Bartlett. 

Invitation. ... 

Manual : 

Historical Sketch, 
Pastors, 
Deacons, . 
Church Clerks, 
Si anding Rules. . 

Original Members of the Present Parish, 

Parishes and Church Buildings, by George T. Plunkett, 

Poem, by Miss Phebe A. Holder. . 

Prayer, ...... 

Present Officers and Members. 
Programme, ...... 

Reminiscences, by Mrs. Laura Emmons FrisselL, 

The Original Twenty-three Members of the Church, by Pev 
The Centennial List of Members 



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The Congregational Church and Society of Hinsdale, Berkshire County, 
Massachusetts, will celebrate their centennial year on Wednesday, August 
twenty-eighth, commencing at 9.30 a. m., and closing at 4.30 p. m. 

The exercises of the day will consist of historical papers, reminiscences, 
biographical sketches, poem, addresses and letters. Among those who are 
expected to be present and give addresses are Rev. Edward Taylor, D. D., 
Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D.,. former pastors, and Rev. Chauncey Good- 
rich, D. D., Missionary to China. 

A collation will be served at noon. 

You are cordially invited to be present. Please reply bj inclosedjpostal 
card. 

Rev. James H. Laird, Pastor. 



Milo M. Wentworth, ) Standing Com- 
W. Ambrose Taylor, >■ mittee of 
George T. Plunkett, ) the Church. 



James Hosmer, Clerk. 
Hinsdale, Mass., August 1st, 1895. 



E. Htjbbard Goodrich, ) Prudential Com- 
Edwin Tremain, >■ mittee of 

Thomas A. Frissell, ) the Society. 

Alden H. Peiroe. Clerk. 



CENTENNIAL EXERCISES 



OF THE 



Congregational Church and Society, 

HINSDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, 

Wednesday, August 28th, 1895-, 

Commencing at 10 o'clock. \. M. 



A. M. 

10.00. AMTHEM— ** -Joy and Gladness.'* By Choir. 

Scripture— Ps. 84 and 122 *Rev. G. H. Flint. Boston. 

Prayer, Rev. J. C. Seagrave. 

Welcome Rev. J. H. Laird. 

10.1.*). Early History of Church Hon. C. J. Kittredge. 

10.45. The Original Twenty-three Members, Rev. J. H. Laird. 

11.05. Parish and Buildings, George T. Plunkett. 

11.25. Finances and Benevolences. James Hosmer. 

11.35. Singing— Hymn 471, Coronation By Choir. 

11.40. Poem, written by Miss Phebe A. Holder, and Letters from friends. 
11.55. Biographical Sketches of Deceased Pastors. 

Rev. John Leland and Rev. Caleb Knight Miss Sarah Boweu 

Rev. William A. Hawley Hon. C. J. Kittredgr. 

Rev. Seth W. Banister and Rev. P. K. Clark Rev. E. L. Clark. 

Rev. Ephraim Flint, D. D Rev. W. J. Bartlett. Lee. 

Luncheon. Collection of Portraits. 

Singing— Montgomery, By Choir. 

Addresses by Former Pastors. 

Rev. Edward Taylor, D. J) Binghamton. N. Y. 

Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D Morristown, N. J. 

Address, Rev. Chauncey Goodrich. China. 

RETROSPECT OF THE YEARS. 
3.05. A Woman's Recollections, written by Mrs. Elizabeth Hinsdale Hall. 

8.15. Reminiscences, Mrs. Laura Emmons Frissell. 

3.20. Short Addresses : tMr. A. D. Matthews, Brooklyn. N. Y.. Judge J. M. Barker 

Pittstield. and others. 
1.10. Singing— Hymn 041. 
4.15. Benediction. 



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DEPARTURE OF TRAINS. 
East: t.85, 7.16, 11.14 p. a: West: 3.48, 5.58, 7.28, 9.00 p. m. 



Not present, place Blled by Rev. Rul'us Apthorpe. 
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PRAYER. 



BY REV. J. C. SEAGRAVE. 




Oh God, Thou art our God and Thou wast the God of our 
fathers. Thou broughtest them hither; Thou didst sow this 
soil with a goodly seed and here is the ripening of that seed, 
and we come together to-day, Oh God, to celebrate Thy good- 
ness, Thy loving kindness; to celebrate Thy dealings with Thy 
church and people. We come, O Lord, to make mention of all 
Thy loving kindness in sending Thy children hither, in peopling 
these hills and valleys with Thine own beloved flock, and when 
they came, they brought intelligence, refinement, education 
and the love of Christ. We thank our Heavenly Father that 
when their habitations were few and mean and when their op- 
portunities were few, they yet planted the church of Christ ; 
they built the house of God ; they met together for Thy wor- 
ship; Jesus Christ was preached to them in the infancy of 
these colonies, and now, Father, as we come to celebrate this 
centennial, the Lord meet with us here, the Lord give us a 
proper view of the history of Thy church and people in this 
place. We desire, O God, to thank Thee for these goodly men 
and women who planted this soil, who founded this church, 
who for a hundred years now have cultivated this soil, have 
done Thy work in this community. We thank our Father in 
Heaven for that Godly ministry, for that goodly fellowship of 
believers who, during all this century, have served their gener- 
ations, and most of whom have now fallen asleep. O God, the 
past and the future are both alike to them, but to us, O God, 
to us how full of interest this time, how full of interest the 



retrospection, how full of interest the history of this church. 
O God, we thank Thee that we have lived to behold this day, 
that now we come together to enjoy this celebration. Direct, 
O God, in all these exercises. May those who furnish an his- 
torical record for our improvement and benefit, may all who in- 
dulge in reminiscences, may we all here together be able to say, 
" It is the Lord's doing, it is marvelous in our eyes." It is the 
Lord Jesus Christ walking in the midst of the seven golden 
candlesticks; it is the Lord Jesus Christ dwelling with his own 
chosen flock; it is the Holy Spirit coming down into the 
churches. It is Thy work they have tried to do; it may have 
been very feeble, very imperfect. Thy people, O God, have 
been full of errors and mistakes and sins, and yet, O God, have 
they tried to serve thee? Did not Thy children long ago 
endeavor to do Thy will when they planted this church, when 
they established the preaching of the Gospel here? O Father, 
it must have been Thy work. In all their weakness, Thou 
madest them strong, in all their ignorance, Thou didst give 
them wisdom and knowledge and the fear of the Lord. We 
thank God that we have this Gospel, this ministry of th,e past. 
We thank Thee, our Father, that we can trace the stream of 
time, we can see how God has dealt with us and with our fath- 
ers. We desire once more, O Lord, to praise Thee, to thank 
Thee that we are in this line of glorious fellowship, that we 
belong to that race of believers whose one hundredth anniver- 
sary we to-day celebrate. Our Father, may our hearts be filled 
with Heavenly light and blessing and may the Holy Spirit 
come down and rest upon us here. We ask it in Jesus' name. 
Amen. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



33 Y MR. LAIRD. 



Dear Friends : We expect that this day will be too full of 
thrilling exercises to make it suitable to spend much time in 
words of welcome. We can only say that we who share the 
present responsibilities and privileges of this one hundred 
years old church and society are glad to see you here. We 
look upon the faces of these men who were once pastors of 
this church with feelings too deep for expression. We have a 
warm welcome for you who once shared the labors and joys of 
this church in times past. We have a word of greeting for 
the churches by which we are surrounded which may be repre- 
sented here to-day, who share with us the Lord's work in our 
common field. We wish to recall with you all tender memo- 
ries of the sainted dead; to remind ourselves with you of the 
constant presence of the unseen One through all these years, 
and we wish above all things to lift our prayers together with 
yours that His presence may be continued with us in the years 
to come; that we may have a higher conception of what He 
is, may see more clearly the character, the nature and the work 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, may have a deeper conviction of the 
value of souls, may be helped of God to do a better, nobler 
work in the years to come; with truer consecration, with truer 
love for the Saviour and for our fellow men. We welcome 
you all to share in these exercises to-day. 

You will readily understand that it was necessary to commit 
to those who were upon the ground the preparation of the his- 
torical record, since they were within reach of the sources from 
which it could be gathered. We begin with the "Early His- 
tory " by the Hon. C. J. Kittredge. 



EARLY HISTORY. 



BY HON. C. J. KITTREDGE. 



The Congregational church in Hinsdale, was originally 
formed in the town of Partridgeiield, by inhabitants of that 
and the adjoining town of Dalton. In reviewing some of the 
events and circumstances connected with its formation, brief 
reference will be made to the early settlement of those towns. 
The boundary line between them commenced at the south-west 
coiner of Windsor, near Wahconah Falls, extending southerly 
in a direct line to the north line of Washington, near the pres- 
ent dwelling house of Mr. Charles Cole. It went through 
about the center of what was afterwards known as Water street 
in Hinsdale, crossing the Housatonic river near Mr. Peirce's 
mill. The settlement of Partridgeiield, now Pern, commenced 
about 1764: it was incorporated as a. town in 1771. It com- 
prised sixty-three lots. A proviso in its charter forever set 
apart three lots for religious and educational purposes, and re- 
quired the building of a meeting house to accommodate all the 
inhabitants. These three lots have since been owned by the 
towns of Peru and Hinsdale, and the annual rent of them ap- 
propriated as required. That a meeting house was built ap- 
pears from the following copy of the record of a town meeting 
held in August, 1774: 

"Whereas the Proprietors in Partridgefield have given bond to build a 
meeting house in said town : the town taking into consideration that the 
Proprietors building a meeting house as large as would be reasonable for 
them to build : would not be sufficient for the town any long termof time. 
the Proprietors hiiving agreed to set up a frame 50x40, and of sufficient 
height for galleries, and cover it aud lay the lower floor, which we judge 
will be sufficient to answer their bond : therefore voted that when the Pro- 



prietors have completed the same according to their vote, all that remains 
to be done in finishing said house, shall be done by the towns in equal 
proportion as other town rates." 

The house was built and located on what is now known as 
Peru hill. It appears that in previous years the town bad 
raised money to pay for preaching : that meetings were regu- 
larly held on Sundays in barns and private houses in different 
parts of the town, and a Congregational church formed. 

In the spring of 1772, Rev. Mr. Tracy, after preaching sev- 
eral Sundays, was called, ordained and settled as their minister, 
on a salary of thirty pounds a year. The low lands in the west 
part of the town adjoining Dal ton attracted many settlers. 
Around what was long known as the Flat, but now as Maple 
street, there gradually grew up a village, containing hotels, 
stores, mechanic shops, etc., making it a center of trade and 
business for the vicinity. There were grain and lumber mills 
on the south, near the present brick school house, also on the 
north where the foundations and "Mill Stones" now add to the 
attractions which make " Wahconah Falls" a popular resort for 
pleasure seekers in these later times. 

Many of the settlers coming from the eastern part of this 
state and Connecticut brought their Puritan principles and 
habits with them. To rest from secular labor, and attend pub- 
lic-worship on Sunday was their conscientious purpose. The 
long, hilly road — the hills in the original road being much 
worse than the present one— from the west part to the meeting 
house, was a serious discouragement to many, Peru hill being 
three miles distant and more than 500 feet higher than the 
Flat. For this reason meetings were often held on Sundays in 
barns, school houses or private dwellings on or near the Flat, 
with or without preaching, as it could be secured. After re- 
peated requests to the town to supply them with preaching part 
of the time, in March, 1783, the town voted to have their min- 
ister, Rev. John Leland, preach one-fifth of the time in the 
west part. This arrangement seems to have been satisfactory, 
and to have continued in force several years. 



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The permanent settlement of Dalton, originally known as 
the "Plantation of Ashuelot Equivalent," commenced about 
1760. As the records previous to its incorporation in 1784, 
have not been preserved, its very early history is not fully 
known. The situation of the town was somewhat peculiar, it 
being made up of scattered settlements or villages, with con- 
liicting interests, having no well defined center. 

The general laws of the state positively required the building 
of a meeting house in all incorporated towns, but left the loca- 
tion to the decision of the inhabitants. This question divided 
communities into hostile sections and created many feuds. It 
caused much controversy in this town. Frequent meetings 
were held to consider it, with the general result of increasing 
the unpleasantness, and lessening the chances for harmony. 
The outcome of this long wrangle was a small, plain house of 
worship, finished in the winter of 1795, in a disagreeable loca- 
tion, where services were held for a few years. But it did not 
bring peace. 

After its incorporation, the town voted each year to raise 
twenty pounds to "hire preaching," except in some years dis- 
turbed by the Shay's rebellion or otherwise, when it was voted 
not to raise money for such purposes. 

The Congregational church in Dalton was organized February 
16, 1785. In March, 1795, the first pastor, Rev. James 
Thomson, was installed, on a salary of twenty pounds a year, 
with firewood and pew rent added. 

One of the settlements in the south-east part of the town, 
adjoining Partridgefield, where the meeting house question 
caused much dissatisfaction, called school ward No. 2, held an 
extraordinary town meeting in June, 1791, not upon the call 
of the selectmen or in the usual place, but in school ward No. 
2, and by order of Eli Eoot, Esq., of Pittsfield, Justice of the 
Peace and Quoram. 

John Wiley was moderator and James Wing, clerk pro tern. 
Mr. Williams the town clerk being conspicuously absent. It 



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does not appear that Mr. Wiley lived in this ward, but was 
prominent in the town, being a leader and officer in the Shay's 
rebellion which had many supporters in Dalton. Mr. Wing 
was a farmer in this ward living south of what is now known 
as Warner hill. The meeting voted that that part of the town 
south of a line drawn from Israel Peck's house on the west 
side, and Timothy Burt's house on the east side, shall be at 
liberty to go off and unite with other towns in ecclesiastical 
privileges, and that a meeting house be set on the hill opposite 
Mr. William Buckley's to accommodate the rest of the inhabi- 
tants. 

Israel Peck's house is now occupied by Peter Tully as a 
dwelling, on the former Anson Curtis farm. The Burt house 
stood near the entrance of the railroad into the ledge cut at 
Lower Valley, which was built directly over its foundation. It 
will be remembered by some here as the home of Frederick 
Bestow in later years. At a regular town meeting January 2, 
1792, the town refused to join with Nathaniel Kellogg, Nathan 
Warner, James Wing, Caleb Goff, Nathan Webb, James Foot, 
Charles Babcock, Amasa Frost and Nathaniel Frost in a peti- 
tion to the legislature for a committee to locate the meeting 
house, and determine whether any part of the inhabitants 
ought to be set off to other towns. The population and dis- 
satisfaction in this ward increased, and resulted in a practical 
union with the inhabitants in the west part of Partridgelield 
in sustaining meetings on the Flat on Sundays. Evidently 
many of the early settlers had strong religious convictions, 
which they desired to manifest in a practical way for their own 
good and that of the community. 

In reality it was in the hearts of these praying, God-fearing 
men and women, that this church first took root. Among the 
settlers in this ward came Rev. Theodore Hinsdale with a large 
family from Windsor, Connecticut, in April, 1795, on to the 
farm now owned by Mr. Robinson. A graduate of YaJe Col- 
lege in 1762, pastor of a Congregational church in Windsor 



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twenty-eight years, a man of marked ability and strong will, 
also an active man of affairs: he was well fitted to have a large 
and good influence in such a community, especially in forming 
the Congregational church, long desired by many. 

For a long time the question of forming a parish or new 
town had been much agitated, which culminated in a petition 
to the legislature of the inhabitants of the east part of Dalton, 
with those in the west part of Partridgefield, to be incorpor- 
ated as a parish or town. The form of this petition will be 
given in full by another. In answer to this petition a com- 
mittee, consisting of Judge Bacon of Stockbridge, Nathaniel 
Bishop of Richmond, and Eugene Taylor of Buckland, went 
to Dalton to enquire into the propriety of granting the peti- 
tion. They were met by a committee from the petitioners, 
also by committees from the town of Dalton and Partridge- 
field in opposition. In accordance with the report of the com- 
mittee, the west Parish of Partridgefield was incorporated in 
June, 1795, on the lines designated and expected. The meagre 
official records during this period, give public interest to the 
private diary of Mr. Hinsdale, largely copied into " Beers' his- 
tory of Berkshire County," from which is here quoted some 
entries relating to the religious character of the community 
and the influence which led to the formation of this church. 

The diary commenced May 18, 1795. "May 29, Sunday. 
At meeting the three last Sabbaths in Mr. Tyler's barn. Heard 
one Haskell preach both parts of the day. He has not a liberal 
education: aims at being an orator without a good understand- 
ing of his mother tongue: without clear ideas, or other knowl- 
edge of the Gospels, than a system of morals." 

Oct. 4. " About two weeks past the new society had their 
first meeting and organized itself, voted not to raise any money 
to supply them with preaching for this winter, but voted, by 
one in majority, to contribute to Mr. Leland's supportin case 
he would preach with them one Sunday in five as usual. 1 
fear there is such a wain of spirit and wisdom in tHe new par 



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ish, that it will be a long time, if ever, before they will come 
to any order in religion. I can have no dependence on them. 
May God succeed them beyond my apprehension." 

Friday, Nov. 6. "Last evening was visited by Messrs. 
Fletcher, Haskell and Skinner, parish committee, requesting 
me to preach with them in the school house for four Sabbaths, 
to which 1 gave my consent." The 8th and 15th he preached. 
''Wednesday, the 19th, being the anniversary Thanksgiving, 1 
offered the people of the new parish a sermon gratis, and 
preached from these words, * Who maketh thee to differ.' ' 

"On the third Sunday had a conference about forming a 
church. Found ten or twelve favoring it, and appointed 
another conference for December 7." 

"Monday, 7th, had the appointed conference. Ten persons 
present, and unanimous in a desire to have the thing accom- 
plished. A confession and covenant which I had prepared was 
read and seemed to be agreeable. Resolved to invite Messrs. 
Allen, Leland and Thompson to attend a lecture on Thursday 
of next week to solemnize the union, and expressed their dis- 
approbation of ,the discontinuance of our Sabbath worship, and 
requested me to preach the next Sabbath at Mr. Babcock's at 
their expense. I returned from the conference in high spirits 
and with better prospects that God has some important good 
in reserve for this place than I have felt before. The next 
Sunday he preached, and after obtaining liberty o± the house, 
notified the people that in case the committee had made no 
provision for preaching, 1 would preach to them gratis the next 
Sabbath. Thursday, the 17th, the lecture was attended. Mr. 
Leland preached and Mr. Thomson was present. A Hartford 
confession of faith was read, but chose Mr. Hinsdale's, as read 
previously, and thirteen men and ten women solemnly gave 
their consent to the confession and covenant, and then sub- 
scribed it with their hands. Following are the names of the 
twenty-three founders of this church : 



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Theodore Hinsdale, Anne Hinsdale, 

Richard Starr, Sarah Sawyer, 

Ephraim Hubbard, Elizabeth Babcock, 

Elizur Burnliam, Anne Goodrich, 

Nathan Hibbard, Rebecca Frost, 

Joseph Skinner, Priscilla Parks, 

Jonathan Skinner, Jerusha Skinner, 

Gideon Peck, Hulda Wing, 

Seth Wing, Hannah Hubbard, 

Asa Goodrich, Elizabeth Frost. 

JSTeheiniah Frost, 
Benjamin Sawyer, 
Asa Parks. 
As showing their intelligent christian faith, it is in evidence, 
that the creed adopted and signed by them continued in force 
ever after in this church, until recently it has been slightly 
modified to more nearly conform to that of the Congregational 
National Council of 1883. Its Calvanistic doctrines were 
faithfully and emphatically preached by the early ministers 
for more than forty years and with more or less emphasis by 
later ones: which may largely account for the religious intelli- 
gence, the conservative stability and liberal charities, which 
have characterized this church during its century of life. The 
memory of these pious ancestors, so filled with the spirit of the 
gospel, that under severe trials and discouragements, they per- 
severed in establishing a church on so firm and enduring a 
basis, should be most kindly and gratefully cherished by all 
who ever enjoy the blessings resulting from their labors. May 
these blessings be transmitted, unimpaired by their successors, 
through many future generations. 

Referring again to the diary. "Mr. Hinsdale preached on 
the 27th, gratis, but after meeting, was told that a paper had 
been circulated for subscription among the people to send into 
the Jersies tor one Lathrop, a Baptist minister, who had 
pirached here one Sabbath some months ago, and that most 



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of the people east of here had subscribed, and two of the parish 
committee among the rest. Struck with this strange extraor- 
dinary measure, not only as an indication of dissatisfaction 
with my services, but of great capreciousness and want of prin- 
ciple, also as suggesting a presage of disputes and divisions to 
follow, as well as an appearance of jealously that I w r as intrud- 
ing my labors upon them w x ith some sinister design, I thought 
it not prudent to continue them, or propose to preach to them 
any more at present." 

Three weeks later he wrote : 

u A doubt has lately been on my mind whether I do well, in 
not offering my services to this young and giddy people for a 
season gratis, and more especially since I have learned their 
project for sending for another is dying away." 

On the 7th of February, 1796, "he offered to serve them for 
the present gratis, and was accepted." 

On the 19th, "Richard Starr was chosen deacon, and on the 
21st, Mr. Hinsdale administered the Lord's Supper for the 
first time to this infant church, now well started on its course 
of christian influence in this town." 

"April 17th, by request of deacon Starr, with promise of 
compensation, and hope of a call suggested, he preached in a 
school house and expects to preach again if Providence per- 
mits." 

"May 5th, preached in Mr. Watkin's barn to the fullest as- 
sembly since I have been in the place, and for the second time 
administered the communion. I have now preached twenty- 
nine Sabbaths, one fast, one Thanksgiving and three lectures 
in the district. Fifteen were gratis, a free will offering, four 
by engagement of committee, and ten with expectation given 
by individuals of a compensation." 

"Monday, May 6, the meeting appointed to see about build- 
ing a meeting house, instead of that, 'voted to see if the society 
would call me to preach and raise money .therefor.' I went out 
and soon learned that on the question of inviting me to preach 



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for one year, there were thirty-three yeas and twenty-seven 
nays, and the former were so confounded by so unexpected an 
opposition they suffered the meeting to be dissolved." 

A stormy month in church matters and some hail stones on 
both sides, till June 27, at a business meeting, a vote was car- 
ried to spend the remainder of the twenty pounds for preach- 
ing. A committee was appointed, who applied to Mr. Hins- 
dale to preach for three months. He accepted conditionally, 
and July 30 preached to a very decent congregation. For three 
or four Sundays he preached to decreasing numbers, and learned 
they were finding fault because he had four dollars a Sunday. 

He exchanged one day with Mr. Leland, of East Parish. 
Mr. Leland had a crowded house. Mr. Hinsdale was troubled. 
" But I have done expecting consistency or decorum here. On 
the whole, we are in great confusion. If I were not an inhab- 
itant should think it my duty not to preach another Sabbath ; 
but if I desist there will be no stated regular worship; the 
enemy will flourish." He held on, but questioned, " Is it duty 
for me to continue for three months?" The people said yes, 
and he preached. 

September 18 completed his three months, and he wrote: 
"When I recall the violent opposition my person and preach- 
ing have met with here, I cannot but consider it as pointed at 
religion and the Gospel and its institutions and immediately at 
myself, chiefly, if not altogether as a promoter of them. Nev- 
ertheless, he agreed to preach three Sundays gratis, k 'and then, 
unless I shall see cause to alter my determination, shall desist, 
unless Providence shall please to open a door for me to serve 
them with better prospects than I have at present." 

October 9th. "This day finished my engagement to the 
committee." In November a subscription was started, he was 
invited, and December 3, said, " preached this day in the school 
house on the Flat. Malice and opposition are not dead. The 
house, unlocked for several weeks, was locked, and the key could 
not be found. Some young men got in at the window, and 



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opened the door so that we had a meeting. But few persons 
on that poor, devoted Flat attended. From other parts of the 
place the house was decently full." 

A few days, later he had a letter from Phineas Watkins, 
charging him and his sons with breaking into the school house 
and forcing the lock, and demanding satisfaction. He sent 
back an answer and " submitted the matter to Providence and 
the laws of my country." JN T ext day the proprietors forbid the 
use of the school house for meetings. 

"Sometimes I think it all arises from an unaccountable dis- 
satisfaction to myself, but since it militates against religion as 
well, I cannot see what I have done since I have been here to 
draw down so much enmity upon myself, unless it be the hon- 
est attempt I have made to build up religion among them." 

By invitation he preached on the 11th, at the house of Mr. 
Hibbard. On the 18th he was to preach at Deacon Starr's, but 
a storm prevented, and he preached there the 25th. During 
these house preachings, Mr. Haskell set up a meeting in oppo- 
sition, and read sermons without prayer. 

"January 1, 1797. This day for the first time they have 
called in Billy Hibbard, a disciple of the Methodist church, to 
preach to them. This day I preached at Mr. Hibbard's to a 
considerable collection of people, and am appointed to preach 
at the same place next Sabbath." Here the diary ends. The 
public records, commencing about this time, show that Mr. 
Hinsdale's interest and usefulness in the new church and par- 
ish, which he had been so instrumental in forming, continued 
to the day of his death, December 29th, 1818, aged 81 years. 

During this period, the raising of the money to pay for the 
new meeting house, some dissentions and withdrawals from 
the Parish, and being without a settled pastor, together with 
the organization of a Baptist church, the increasing influence 
of Methodism, and other similar events, were a great hindrance 
to the peace and prosperity of the new church. 



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However it slowly gained in numbers, — four additions in 
1796, four in 1797, five in 1800, four in 1801, making the en- 
tire membership to 1802, forty, — nineteen males, twenty-one 
females. At a church meeting January 25th, 1802, Elijah H. 
Goodrich was chosen deacon. The meeting house was finished 
and dedicated in October, 1799. 

In May, 1799, the Parish petitioned the General Court to be 
incorporated as a town, with the name of Green, or Russia, 
but the petition was not granted. In 1803, another petition 
for the incorporation with the name of Hinsdale was granted, 
and in 1804, Hinsdale became a recognized town. 

Thus the Congregational church in the west Parish of Par.- 
tridgefield became the First Congregational church in Hins- 
dale. 

With this imperfect introduction of my subject, I leave it 
for others to present additional historical facts, reminiscences 
and personal sketches, of great interest to all present. 




REV. J. H. LAIRD. 



The Original Twenty-Three Members 
of the Church. 



BY REV. J. H. LATRD. 



I am to speak of the original members of the church. It is useless for 
me to say that they are all dead, and yet there is one among us to-day 
whose life reaches over nearly the whole length of the hundred years, lack- 
ing only two years of it. I want to say that she is present with us to-day 
and she has been with us as regularly as any other worshipper through 
the years. She was at church last Sabbath and was in her Sabbath school 
class as she usually is. I speak of Mrs. Amanda Wentworth Clark, the 
wife of Deacon William Clark. 

One hundred years ago is more than twice as far back as 
fifty years. The times, when our original twenty-three mem- 
bers were the living men and women of Hinsdale, are at a far 
remove from us, if we count by the changes which the years 



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bring. The days of the flax hatchel, the spinning wheel, the 
hand loom and homespun garments stand easily linked with 
the times of Solomon's model housewife "seeking wool and 
flax and laying her hand to the spindle;' but they are cut off 
by a sharp divide from our time. 
* When we think of people who never saw a railroad or steam 
force of any sort, a telegraph pole, a daily paper or a stove or 
parlor match; who lighted their houses with pine knots and 
tallow dips, who reckoned in pounds and shillings, and were 
imprisoned for debt, we are impressed that by the record that 
events make they lived a long time ago. 

There is said to be an old Dutch map at Albany, in which 
Berkshire county with the larger part of Vermont is a blank 
with the frigid name Winterberge written across it. 

It may have been this map, with the unsettled line between 
.Massachusetts and New York, together with our hill barrier to 
the east that left Berkshire county with a sparse population as 
late as 1770. So it chanced that our one score and three foun- 
dation church members were new-comers. For the most parr 
they had been citizens of the "fat valley of the Connecticut." 
A little over-crowded down there in the regions of Hartford, 
Norwich, Wethersfleld, Windsor and other old communities, 
they had found that by the way of Westfield, Tyringham and 
Otis they could come upon new lands. So they came, in their 
rude wagons, bringing their household goods and their puri- 
tanism with them, up to the new town of Partridgefield. 

Would that the phonograph and kinnetoscope had preserved 
for us the sights and sounds and movements of those two 
hours, on that Thursday afternoon one hundred years ago in 
the house of John Babcock. Primitive sleighs or horses, pil- 
lioned tor "carrying double," are about the door. Within, a 
Are of logs blazes upon the andirons, and licks its flames about 
the overhanging crane. The Windsor chairs support plank- 
seats for the thirty or more present. The old wooden clock, 
with its naked, dangling weights and pendulum, slowly beats, 



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There was no "tick of time" to begin upon; no bell, no Dal- 
ton steam whistle, few clocks and fewer watches were there ii) 
town ; so they straggled in assembling and group to talk. 

Mr. Leland, their Partridgefield pastor, then in his prime of 
forty or thereabout, greets the friends as they come in. Deacon 
Richard Starr, of seventy -seven, the only old man, is grouped 
perhaps with Rev. Theodore Hinsdale, who was then fifty- 
eight; and Ephraim Hubbard of sixty-eight; and with them 
perhaps was James Thomson, the young pastor at Dalton, 
talking over the proposed proceedings of the day. Nathan 
Plibbard, fifty-eight years old, and Seth Wing, near the same 
age, with Benjamin Sawyer, the stalwart blacksmith, and 
the grave [Nehemiah Frost, lacking two years of thirty, and 
Asa Goodrich, twenty-nine, may have talked in low tones 
together of current things ; of dissatisfaction about the newly 
run lines of the West Parish, or of the Whisky Insurrection, 
then in progress in Western Pennsylvania, or how Massachu- 
setts was to pay its $10,000,000 of war debt, or the proceedings 
of Washington's presidency, with a word about the new and 
better lands beyond the Hudson. Anne, the wife of Mr. 
Hinsdale, then only forty-seven, w 7 ould readily consort with 
Phebe Hibbard of forty, Hannah Hubbard, one year older, 
Huldah, Seth Wing's wife, of thirty-five, and the tw T o young 
Frost wives, of whom Rebecca was only twenty-three. Of the 
ages of the newly married Asa and Priscilla Parks, Joseph, 
Jonathan and Jerusha Skinner, Gideon Peck, Sarah Sawyer, 
we are not informed. Elizur Eurnham may have been older 
than these, since his name goes down next to the elders at the 
top. 

There is a hush as Parson Leland rises and, with proper 
introductory words, reads the Confession of Faith and Cove- 
nant. Testimonials of good standing are in order. Ten of 
the number, the Hinsdales, Deacon Starr, the Hibbards, the 
Wings, the Goodriches, the Frosts and Ephraim Hubbard were 
members of the church at Peru, and can be vouched for by the 



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pastor present. Whether the others came b}^ letters or upon 
profession we cannot say. 

The young Dalton minister offers prayer. Mr. Leland 
preaches a sermon from the text : " The King's daughter is all 
glorious within. Her clothing is of wrought gold." At the 
close of the discourse the twenty-three arise, solemnly assent 
and, led by Mr. Hinsdale and the venerable Deacon Starr, 
affix their names and become, for the centuries, the original 
members of the Hinsdale Congregational church. 

It was, all things considered, a brave and most significant 
thing those men and women did. We think them worthy to 
be remembered by those who have reaped the seed of their 
sowing. Some of them, in spite of record and research, have, 
much to our regret, passed into the obscurity which will sooner 
or later be the fate of us all. 

One will not soon be forgotten. His name heads the list. 
The name of the town, the recorded history of Berkshire and 
the worthy names among his descendants will speak of him for 
generations to come. His history and his characteristics cannot 
well be left out of other papers presented here to-day, and can 
be readily drawn from other sources, so that brief space only 
need be given to him. 

Rev. Theodore Hinsdale was born in Berlin, ConnecticuT. 
November 25, 1738, O. S.; entered Yale at twenty, was a good 
scholar and a Christian. He taught while he prepared for the 
ministry, became pastor of a church in Windsor, Connecticut, 
at twenty-nine and served there twenty-eight years. He came 
to Hinsdale the same year in which this church was formed 
and remained an active and devoted member of it for twenty- 
three years. Near the gate of our cemetery upon the left as 
you enter is a handsome monument to his memory. The in- 
scription upon it was doubtless a sincere tribute. 

" A lover of hospitality ; a lover of good men. Sober, just, 
holy, temperate; holding fast the faithful word as he hath 
been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to 
exhort and to convince the erainsayers." 



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His wife Anne, eleven years younger than himself, preceded 
him by a year into the home beyond. 

It seems fitting, on account of family relationships, to in- 
clude in this sketch the few, who were added to the original 
number in the two or three years while the church was form- 
ing, and before a pastor was settled. 

Among these was Nancy Hinsdale, daughter of Theodore, 
who came in some months after the church was formed, upon 
profession of faith. She was then but sixteen years old. She 
established the first young ladies 1 school in Pittsfield and was 
for a long time a teacher in connection with her cousin Miss 
Emma Willard, in the Willard Female Seminary at Troy, N. 
Y. She died in 1851, at eighty-two years of age. An excel- 
lent picture of her hangs in the Pittsfield Athenaeum. The 
home of the Hinsdales was upon the farm now owned by Mr. 
0. G. Robinson. 

Next to Mr. Hinsdale, Dea. Richard Starr was most active 
in organizing the church. He came to this town from Groton, 
Connecticut, fourteen years before the church was formed. He 
was our first deacon, and held the office until his death ten 
years later. The testimonials of the time are a " pious* and 
godly man," "of great service to the religious interests of the 
people." Dea. Starr's house was upon Maple street. His 
grave is not far from that of Mr. Hinsdale in our cemetery. 

Near the same place are ^the graves of tiie Hubbards, — 
Ephraim A., and his wife Hannah. Their house was just 
north of the Phinkett reservoir. Traces of the foundation 
may still be seen upon the north side of the road. Mr. Hub- 
bard was doubtless of Connecticut, possibly a son of Daniel 
Hubbard of Pittsfield. He died in 1810, but his wife, who 
was much younger, occupied the old home until 1843, and is 
remembered by several who worship with us still. 

Elizur Burnham, whose name comes next, lived a little south 
of the Plunkett reservoir. He died in Hinsdale in 1811, at 
seventy-eight. His son William, another of the early members. 



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was well known by some who are here to-day. Of the origin 
of the family we are not informed except that William's wife, 
Asenath, brought a letter from Williamsburg. The foundation 
of their house, fifty years abandoned, is in the pasture field 
among the old fruit trees of their planting. 

Another of the men from Connecticut was Nathan Hibbard, 
who came to Hinsdale from Norwich in 1780, and was a well 
known citizen at the time the church was formed. He was a 
man of substance and business. A few words from one who 
knew him gives us a man " upright, respected and trusted." 
"a tanner and shoemaker," a Christian man, too, who had the 
good sense to marry Mehitable Crosby, "a very pious woman." 
who was the mother of his ten children, the last two twins, 
with whom the mother departed this life, seven years before he 
came to Massachusetts. He maintained the home and the 
family altar by marrying Phebe Fitch, "the best of women." 
One of the home says, " She taught me my prayers and to fear 
God and keep His commandments." In Hinsdale, Mr. Hib- 
bard bought a farm and set his boys at work. The few hints 
we have give us a brusque, jovial, business-like man ; in his 
prime when he stood up to take the familiar vows of our 
church. He was not unaffected by the spiritual coldness and 
worldliness of the time, yet "choked with grief when a son had 
learned to swear." Possibly we owe more to his wife Phebe 
than to himself. It was she that was " much grieved when the 
family prayers were omitted because many workmen were em- 
ployed in the house building." It was she who gently rebuked 
the profanity of the laborers and could not feel they were ex- 
cused because "they had been in the army where men must 



-wear." 



Possibly there was in that gathering at the house of John 
Babcock one of their sons, christened "Billy;' then twenty- 
four, but sobered by wrestling with doctrines of election and 
predestination. He became the pioneer of Methodism in these 
parts. His pious eccentricities are well remembered, and there 



are those here who have seen him. His autobiography, though 
a rare book, is still extant. He died in Chatham, N. Y., where 
he had a home for thirty-one years. His first sermon was 
preached in the house of one Haskell, an inn-keeper on Maple 
street. For many years he was a citizen of Hinsdale, and 
Rufus, his son, commenced the tanning business, which fell to 
Asher Ivnight. He dwelt in the old Knight home now occu- 
pied by Mr. Wesley Clark. Rev. Rufus P. Hibbard, a son of 
Rufus, now pastor of the Congregational church at Gloucester, 
worshipped 'with us two Sabbaths last month. We cannot 
definitely fix upon the residence of Nathan and Phebe Hib- 
bard one hundred years ago. They removed from Hinsdale 
and Nathan died at eighty-eight, in 1825, at Pompey, Onon- 
daga Co., N. Y. 

Of Joseph, Jonathan and Jerusha Skinner we know little. 
One of the men owned land and lived probably on the west side 
of the road between Henry Curtiss and Milo Stowell. Jonathan 
was a member of the first parish committee and was active in 
the early history of the town. Of Gideon Peck and his wife 
whose first name even is not given, we only know that Mrs. 
Peck came with a letter from Franklin, Connecticut. No sub- 
sequent records give us any account of Asa and Priscilla Parky. 

l?eth and Hulclah Wing lived in the south part of the town. 
Wingtown that part of the parish was called. A century ago 
this year, Seth bought of Charles Goodrich the land lying 
north of the house of O. C. Loveland in the south part of the 
town. He came to Hinsdale in 1774, and, with several other 
Wing families, had a membership in the Partridgefield (now 
Peru) church. The manner of his death, in 1812, was one of 
the tragical stories of the olden time. A cow had been well 
sold for cash. The good bargain was talked over one evening 
at a little inn on the then Pontoosuc turnpike down the hill 
towards Pittsfield. Mr. Wing started home late and was found 
robbed and dead in the snow upon the following morning. 
His son, Dea. Samuel Wing, one of our early members, who 



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spent most of his life in West Pittsfield, was a man of prayer. 
A friend of his, still living, once shared devotions with him in 
a grove which he confessed he had visited thousands of times. 
It was ohserved that by the board on which he knelt, the toes 
of his shoes had cut down through the sod into the earth. 

The Good riches were pioneers in Berkshire. Charles, a 
distant relative of those among us here, was the first to intro- 
duce the cart and plow into Pittsfield. At the first Agricul- 
tural Fair in 1816, he, in his ninety-fifth year, stood upon a 
stone drag holding a plow, and was thus drawn through the 
streets by fifty yoke of oxen. It was a nephew of his, Josiah 
by name, that followed him to Pittsfield and brought with him 
the Good riches of Hinsdale. Three of Josiah's sons came to 
"this town, Elijah Hubbard, with his wife Mabel, Asa, and 
Jesse, who was an active man in our town affairs a hundred 
vears ago. Asa and his wife were original members and Elijah 
Hubbard came in soon after. Asa lived, we think, near the 
place where the road to Belmont reservoir enters the field just 
south of Milo Stowell's. He soon removed to Connecticut, 
the old home of the Good riches. 

Elijah Hubbard Goodrich was chosen deacon of the church 
in 1802 and died twenty-four years later in the sixty-eighth 
year of his age. His wife Mabel survived him by twenty -four 
years, attaining to ninety-two. Their home was upon what is 
now the Goodrich farm. The Goodrich family has been rich 
in the leaders of business enterprise and literature. In the 
latter field the product ranges from the famous ''Peter Parley's 
Stories" up to the profoundest writings in science, jurispru- 
dence and theology. This church is honored to have always 
had a Goodrich name upon its roll; and has been specially 
honored by Chauncey Goodrich, one of its members, who has 
been for thirty-one years a missionary in China. 

The Frosts brought a strong element into the young church. 
Nehemiah and Amasa came to Hinsdale in 1772. They, with 
their wives, were from Williamsburg. Deacon's sons they 



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were, who married Deacon Nash's daughters, Elizabeth and 
Rebecca. Their home was upon the road between Charles 
Cole's and the Plunkett reservoir, near the latter. The cellar 
wall only remains. Their removal was in early time, twelve 
years after the church was formed, but not until after Nehe- 
miah had served as a deacon four years in Hinsdale. The Frosts 
went from this church as pioneers to Riga, N. Y., near Roch- 
ester. They were among the eleven members who formed a 
church there, of which Eehemiah became a deacon. Nehemiah 
died there in 1847, eighty-three years old. A grandson bears 
testimony that he was " full of good works in the Master's ser- 
vice," "found among the foremost in church work," a desirous 
for the advancement of the Gospel of Christ." Society and the 
church have been enriched by the descendants of these families. 

On a Sabbath last April, from this pulpit, we were charmed 
and thrilled by the eloquence of President William Goodell 
Frost, of Eerea college, Kentucky, a direct descendant of this 
same Rebecca Frost, who, a young wife, took her vows to Christ 
here one hundred years ago. It proved no misfortune, in the 
case of these households, to be deacon's sons or to marry deacon's 
daughters. 

We wish more was known of Benjamin and Sarah Sawyer. 
Sawyers there have been among us of honorable citizenship 
and descent, but up to date we can only presume Benjamin 
was their ancestor. In some legal papers he is spoken of as a 
blacksmith. In his tax list to build the church, a shop is men- 
tioned and land also to considerable extent. Recorded deeds 
show frequent transactions in real estate by him. Some of 
these holdings were upon the street which runs front of Mr. 
Milo Stowell's house— the aristocratic street, it w T ould seem, of 
the times. There he and Sarah may have lived. 

Time has also obscured the history of the Babcock family. 
Our record is that the church was formed in the house of John 
Babcock. Later, Eunice Babcock is spoken of as his wife. 
Elizabeth, who put down her name among the twenty-three, 



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we can trace no farther. It would gratify us to-day to put our 
feet upon the spot where the confession and covenant were 
accepted. We hope yet to know just where John Bahcock 
lived in 1795. He and Eunice must have left descendants, for 
six of their children were baptized ninety-seven years ago. 

There were several families of Loomers in Hinsdale in the 
early times. Lucy is spoken of as the "Widow Loonier," 
though but thirty-five when the church was formed. When 
the meeting house was seated she was assigned an honorable 
place, in the "first tier west of the broad alley." She died at 
sixty, in 1820, at the house of Nathaniel Tracy in this town. 
Lucy Pease was the wife of James Tease. We seem war- 
ranted in locating the family upon the farm once owned by the 
late Charles D. Smith, in the north-east part of the town. It 
is possible that a Lorenzo Warriner Pease of Hinsdale, who 
went as a missionary to Cyprus in 1834, and died there in 
1 839, was a son of theirs, 

Moses Yeomans married a daughter of Nathaniel Tracy, one 
of Hinsdale's most honored early citizens. Their home was in 
a house, which has disappeared, not far south of the residence 
of Mrs. Warren Knight. To them was born Nathaniel Tracy 
Yeomans. 

Another son was John W. Yeomans, upon whom the world's 
honors have come most thickly. He was apprenticed to a 
blacksmith, probably upon Maple street here; but had a thirst 
for learning too strong to be repressed. He bought his time 
from his master, earned his own support in study and gradu- 
ated at Williams College only one rank below his classmate, 
Mark Hopkins. He studied at Andover; organized the Con- 
gregational church at North Adams; was pastor of Pittsfield 
First church; became president of Lafayette College in Penn- 
sylvania; and, to crown all honors, the degree of Doctor of 
Divinity was conferred upon him three times during one year, 
by Williams and Princeton Colleges and Marion University, 
in Ohio. He died in 1863. 



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Azubah Jones was the wife of Eli Jones. Their home was 
about half a mile this side of the Pern line, on the road to 
Cole hill. Azubah united with the church when she was 
twenty-six, bringing a letter from Summers, Connecticut, and 
remained a member until she died in 1810. 

Of the family of a brother of Eli, was Sally L. Jones, who 
was for a long time in the family of Rev. William A. Hawley. 
She became the wife of Mr. Hoel, and is still living in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. Her large wealth is generously used for the benefit of 
her friends. We had hoped she would be with us to-day. 

The Bassetts were another Connecticut family, bringing let- 
ters, from Hartland, just over the line south of Westfield. 
Their home in Hinsdale was a little beyond the Creamery, 
upon the right as you go south. Little remains of a dwelling 
are there. Azubah, the wife, died in 1802, at thirty-one. Mr. 
JBassett's second wife was Mary Knight, sister of pastor Caleb 
Knight. -Polly, their daughter, married Mr. Obadiah Brown 
and became the mother of William Brown, who died two 
years ago at the old homestead south of the Tracy farm. Isaac 
Bassett w T as chosen deacon of the church in 1807, about three 
years after his second marriage. He subsequently removed 
from the place. We have no record of the latter part of the 
life of Dea. Bassett, or of the place and time of his death. 

We, who are a century removed from those who laid the 
foundation of the First Congregational church in Hinsdale, have 
been trying to make them live before us for a little time to-day. 

We are persuaded that, if we could really get before us the 
obstacles that faced them, in the poverty of the times, the dis- 
organized condition of society, and the prevalent religious in- 
difference of the period, we could scarcely feel ourselves wor- 
thy to be their successors. Yet, thanks to God's grace, we do 
not feel that those men and women have occasion to be ashamed 
of the church that has grown upon the foundation they laid, a 
church that in membership, in congregation, in giving, in Sunday 
school, in Ladies' societies, in Endeavor society, cannot in the 
one hundred years now past, look back upon a period of decline. 



Parishes, and Church Buildings. 



BY G. T. PLUNKETT. 



The following is the copy of a document which was sent to 
the General Court, one hundred years ago : 

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court 
assembled 

The Petition of a Number of the Inhabitants of the West part of Par- 
tridgefield and the South East part of Dalton, Each in the County of 
Berkshire and Commonwelth of Masserchusetts, Humbly Sheweth— that 
it is their request on Account of the Situation of their Towns respectively 
to be Set of from their Towns and Enexed to Each other, and be formed 
into a Town or Parish as Shall be Thought most for the good of the 
Towns and the Petitioners Respectively and for that purpose your Peti- 
tioners Humbly Pray that your Honours would take the matter into your 
Dilaberate Consideration and Grant a Committee at the Expence of the 
Petitioners, to Vew the Premises and give their opinion whether or not it 
is reasonable that the Petitioners Should have their Prayer granted, and if 
granted, to say how much of the Towns Shall be So Set together, and 
Whether in their opinion it will be most for the good of the Towns and 
the Petitioners Respectively to have Said Society formed into a Town or 
Parish— and your Petitioners as in duty bound Shall Ever Pray. 

Parttudgefield, Jan'y 5th, 1795. 



Elias Bardwell 
A /el Park 
Seth Wing 
Samuel Wing 
Thomas Prcntis 
Samuel Bruce 
Moses Preson 
Elizur Burnham 
Ralph Wheelock 
Rufus Tyler 
Nathan Hall 
James Wing 
Nathan Warner 



Joshua Jackson 
Amasa Watkins 
Joshua Sherwin 
Jeremiah Stand ley 
Samuel Hascall 
Abel Kittredge 
Oliver Watkins 
F.benezer Witter 
Oliver Miller 
Jothen Bruse 
Charles Loomis 
Simson Watkins 
Nathaniel Ballon 



Eleazer Loomis 
Samuel Jones 
Aaron Byxbc 
Lemuel Bullard 
Abraham Washburn 
Lewis Miller 
Joseph Witter, Jr 
Septimius Witter 
Abner Bvxby 
Elias Parker 
Eleazer Bachman 
John Wells 
John Wells, Jr 



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Amasa Frost 
Samuel Lyman 
Stephen Bartelet 
Benjamin Sawyer 
Jonathan Skinner 
Nathan Hibbard 
Frederick Curtiss 
Epaphras Curtiss 
John Putnam 
Timothy Russ 
Jedediah Russ 
Gideon Peck 
Nehemiah Frost 
Isaac Lyman 
William Fletcher Jr 
Jesse Goodrich 
Timothy Olds 
Parker Hall 
Isaiah Babcock 



Roger Watkins 
David Miller 
John Babcock 
Noah Benson 
Stephen Bruce 
Thomas Prentis Jr 
Ephrahum Wing 
Ephraim Hubbard 
Nathan Nicholson 
Elisha Wing 
Asa Goodrich 
Oliver Tenney 
Thomas Adams 
Isaac Dresser 
Eben'r Payn 
Amariah Woods 
Zechariah Watkins 
Samuel Watkins 
John Watson 



Abel Coy 
Asa Chamberlain 
Samuel Watkins Jr 
Joseph Wells 
Freeman Stanley 
Abner Mason 
Simeon Gennings 
Richard Starr Jr 
Philips Cady 
Isaac Cady 
Joseph Bailey 
William Fletcher 
Asa Whitney 
Phinehas Watkins Jr 
Hugh Smith 
Edmund Bridges 
Frederick Follet 
Abiather Seckell 
Theodore Hinsdale Jr 
Amos Barret 



In answer to the foregoing petition, a committee was duly 
sent, and "the West Parish in Par fridge field " became incorpor- 
ated. It had a legal existence of two days less than nine years, 
when it was merged and lost in the present town of Hinsdale. 
The General Court which granted the request was assembled 
in the historic old state house, still preserved at the head of State 
street in Boston. Neither the town of Partridgefield or Dalton 
was represented that year, a local option law allowing small 
towns to send a representative or not as they chose. The Act 
was signed by Governor Samuel Adams, fourth governor under 
the constitution of 1780. 

His customary dress on public occasions, we are informed, 
was a tie wig, cocked hat, knee breeches, silver shoe buckles 
and a red cloak. The act was signed on the 23d of June, 1795, 
and the news of its passage travelled from Boston to Berkshire 
by stage but arrived forty-six years ahead of cars and sixty-six 
before a telegram. It was received in the midst of the busy 
season, for they were farmers in those days. A copy of it is on 
exhibition here to-day. The territory of the new parish was 



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the same as the present town of Hinsdale, and the "immunities 
and duties" were to be the same as other parishes in the Com- 
monwealth were entitled and subjected to. The church and 
state were constitutionally one, and each town and parish was 
obliged to build a meeting house and support a minister, as well 
as build school houses and support school masters, both require- 
ments being equally binding. The churches must be orthodox, 
which was construed to mean Congregational, it being the 
"standing order" in the State. The people were also obliged 
to attend public worship or be fined, and the tything-man, who 
was none other than church truant officer, must look after them. 
The State gave towns and parishes the same power to tax for 
the support of churches as for schools, roads and paupers, but 
the Congregational denomination w T as more highly favored than 
others. The income of ministerial lands was almost solely ap- 
plied for its benefit, and this naturally made controversies among 
the denominations, notwithstanding a proviso in the law to 
avoid them, and this parish had one. The act contains a sec- 
tion confirming as legal the sale of a certain lot No. 3. This was 
a ministerial lot the minister, for reason of its remote situation, 
had declined to accept, and the town of Partridgefield sold it 
and applied, or rather, as this shows, misapplied the proceeds 
towards building its first meeting house, not the one recently 
burned in Peru. The lot lies on the north side of the road lead- 
ing to Maple street, east and west of Mr. Lysander M. Francis's 
house. 

No exact information of the population of the parish in 1795 
can be obtained. The earliest reliable basis for estimate is the 
assessors' tax book for the year 1798. That shows one hundred 
and fifty-one resident tax payers and six non-resident; one 
hundred and twenty paying on property and thirty-one paying 
only a poll tax. There were probably one hundred to one hun- 
dred and twenty-five families. If the same ratio of polls to 
population prevailed then as by the new census of L895, there 
would have been six hundred' and four persons, but from other 



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data that number seems too high; a happy medium is five hun- 
dred and fifty souls. The valuation of the parish was £17,322 
ISTew England currency, or $57,740. The valuation now of the 
same territory is $700,000. Three times the population and 
twelve times the valuation. There were — 

66 Houses, 112 Horses, 

1 Inn, 58 Colts, 

1 Store, 231 Cows, 

7 ^Faculty, 80 Oxen — 40 pairs, 

1 Grist Mill, 343 Stock other than cows, 

5 Saw Mills, 239 Swine. 

6 Shops, 

1 Potash Works. 

To give a better idea of individual wealth there was no money 
at interest, bank stock or other investments assessed. Of 
seventy-five owners of horses but five had more than two. 
Of ninety-six owners of cow t s but one had more than nine, and 
but two more than seven. Of thirty eight owners of oxen but 
two had more than one pair. There were no sheep. Farm 
crops were taxed (an unusual thing) and the quantities pro- 
duced were small per individual producer. Of wheat the aver- 
age per producer was 8 1-2 bushels; of rye per producer, 14 
bushels; of corn, 11 bushels; oats, 12 1-3 bushels; hay, 5 tons; 
flax, 78 pounds. They were possessed of moderate means but 
nearly all owned homes. Of the one hundred and fifty-one 
men in the parish twenty years old and upwards, all but thirty 
owned a home. But they showed great liberality of spirit in 
building a meeting house. It was built by taxation, but they 
voluntarily placed themselves in line for the purpose, and it is 
the voluntary actions of a people which shows their character. 
The tax rate for building this house was $43.60 on a thousand, 
and a poll tax of $9.04; the town taxes being additional. A 



*Trade or profession. 



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similar tax to-day would yield enough to build a church costing 
over $55,000. 

According to church records, there were on January 1, 1708, 
thirty-one Congregational ists and seventeen Baptists. 

Allowing twelve as a liberal proportion for other denomina- 
tions, there were sixty church members, male and female, in a 
possible population of six hundred souls, or one in ten at the 
outside. 

The parish was organized Monday, September 21, 1795, at 
one o'clock, p. m., in the school house near Mr. Andrew Belcher's. 
Squire Ebenezer Peirce was Moderator. Abiathar Seckell, a 
fair penman, Clerk. Nathaniel Tracy, " Capt. Nat.", Treasurer. 
Jonathan Skinner, Nathaniel Tracy and Joshua Jackson, As- 
sessors, and Parish Committee. 

CHURCH BUILDINGS. 

The parish being organized, the history of church building 
commences with the record of a vote passed at its first annual 
meeting, held March 14, 1796, in the school house near Mr. 
Andrew Belcher's, and reads as follows: "Voted that we will 
build a meeting house for Public Worship," and as substantial 
evidence of the good faith behind that vote, we have the pleas- 
ure of introducing "this venerable church our fathers built to 
God," this edifice which for ninet} 7 -six years has withstood the 
elements, and if spared a few months longer, will have rounded 
out a period of five thousand Sundays; and as still further 
proof that that faith has been well kept, it can be said that ex- 
cept for reason of repairs or removal, its doors have always 
been open to worshippers on the Lord's day, and that within 
these walls no less than ten thousand services must have been 
held. 

The main question being promptly settled, (March 14, '96) 
others of minor importance, and there were many of them, 
took much longer to decide. It was twenty-five months (April 
2d, '98), after voting to build a meeting house before the con- 



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tract was signed. The first question to follow was that of loca- 
tion. Four sites were viewed and reviewed and all on Maple 
street or near by. First (March 14, '96), a committee of five 
was instructed to view a lot a on the south side of the road near 
Mr. Rufus Tyler's dwelling house," and report three months 
later, (or June 6th). This spot appears to be not far from the 
present parsonage. At the meeting June 6th to hear the report 
of the committee of five, they voted for some reason not given, 
" to adjourn down to the barn now occupied for preaching." The 
committee of five were then directed to review this proposed 
site and also one, (]STo. 2) " on the north side of the road between 
Messrs. Hawse and Crary's store and their potash works." 
This spot may have been where Mr. William C. Smith's house 
now stands near road leading past the cemetery. 

The next, (No. 3) was land "owned by Mr. Roger Watkins," 
and was probably the hill west of the creamery on opposite side 
of the road. After considering these various locations and the 
price for the same, they settled the question (December 4, '97), 
by choosing (No. 4), a more commanding site than either, it 
being "on the school-house hill near Mr. Andrew Belcher's." 
This land was bought of Mr. Belcher by deed of April 7th, 
1798, for $70, and "contained by estimation one aeor more or 
less," and is deeded "to a committee duly qualified for Pro- 
fixing a spot for building a meeting house." The lot lies in 
the south-east corner of what was known as lot No. 5. of Par- 
tridgefield survey. 

Size was the next question to follow. It was first (October 
3, 1796), voted to build 50x40; next, (October 2, 1797) "to 
enlarge to 44x52 square," and no other vote is recorded, but 
the contract and present size is " 50 and 2x45, with posts 26 
feet long" or high. 

Then came style. The first plan was for a plain house 
but later (October 3, 1797) voted that "there be a convening 
porch annexed to said house," and still later (December 17, 



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1797), voted that a belfry be added, and the committee added 
a steeple. 

Apparently no architect was employed as (December 17, 
1797), voted "to finish the outside of the above house ac- 
cording to Mr. Nathan Warner's Motions," (Mr. Warner of 
Warner Hill). What Mr. Warner's motions were does not 
appear by the records, but he was not without experience, as 
we learn he had been on the church building committee in 
Dalton. Two weeks later, Christmas day, (1797) "Voted the 
above house be built according to the fashions of the pres- 
ent day." The old South church in Boston is said to have 
been a model for more churches in the State than any other, 
but the contract refers only to the meeting house in Chester for 
certain exterior features, and to that in Pittsfield for interior 
arrangement and workmanship. 

The raising of the frame was first fixed to take place June, 
1797, but later changed to June, 1798. No record is made of 
the event itself, usually celebrated as a great occasion in former 
days. 

Several different building committees were chosen, but the 
honor fell on Nathan Warner, Nathaniel Tracy, Col. William 
Richards, Rev. Theodore Hinsdale and Epaphras Curtiss. 

The only question which led to much difference of opinion 
was how the money should be raised, and this raised quite a 
breeze. The first plan (October 3, 1796) voted "to raise and 
finish the outside of said meeting house by direct tax," and 
we may suppose by some other plan to finish the inside. 

When this vote was being discussed, protests were made by 
persons calling themselves Baptists, who objected to being 
taxed for building a Congregational meeting house, and they 
were joined by a few others from economical reasons, and made 
a stir quite out of proportion to their real numbers and kept it 
up until the following year (October 2, 1797) when the direct 
tax plan was abandoned. The new one adopted, was u to 
sell the Pews of the intended meeting house finished to 



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defray the expense of building said house." A few weeks 
later (November 2, 1797), " voted to sell the Pews of intended 
meeting house the first Mondav in December next, and that 
three notices be set up in said parish previous to the sale, one 
on the sign post, one at Mr. Rufus Tyler's and the other at 
Mr. Daniel Arms'." The day arrived and the meeting was 
held "at Mr. Rufus Tyler's dwelling. Inn-keeper." Voted 
" to reserve five pews on the lower floor for the use of the pub- 
lic," — one probably for the minister's family. Voted "that 
Samuel Hascall be vendue master in venduing the above pews," 
and voted "that there be liquors provided for the use of the 
vendue at the expense of the parish." This was a parish, not 
a church meeting. They then proceeded with the sale. We 
may imagine the scene which happened on our quiet Maple 
street, then called the Flat. The tavern was on the site of 
or near Mr. Eugene Day's house. A cold December day; 
probably a hundred New England farmers in homespun were 
gathered, among their number a few Revolutionary soldiers, 
a merchant and a miller; wood blazing in open fire-places; de- 
canters, mugs and flip irons in sight ; a sturdy auctioneer. The 
cheers for the highest bidders, the mingled air of seriousness 
and excitement over the announcement of the result, which 
was a sale of all pews on the lower floor for the sum of 
$3,528.25, ranging from $136 for the highest down to $20.25, 
and averaging $83.39. The gallery pews were sold in the same 
manner three weeks later, on Christmas day, making the total 
amount of the sales $4,209.50, and enough to pay for the in- 
tended meeting house. But all was not settled ; a something 
is discernible between the lines of the record. 

By comparing the list of names of those who bought pews 
with the names on the church roll, we find only two of the latter 
among them. Out of the then fifteen men church members, 
thirteen had stayed away from the occasion. The church mem- 
bers may have secured pews indirectly and probably did so, 
as six persons who were present bid off several pews apiece, 



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just enough extra ones to make an even pew for each absent 
church member. The church had entered its protest, however, 
against either the plan or the liquor ; at all events the plan fell 
through, as we shall see. Encouraged for the time being by 
the sale of pews, the committee, substantial men of the parish, 
agreed with one Ithamar Pelton to build this house for the sum 
of £1,230 lawful money, or $4,100. Extras were afterwards 
added, making total cost $4,373. 70. The contract, a curious 
mixture of old Testament and modern expressions, was signed 
April 2d, 1798, four months after the sale of pews, and the 
house was to be completed twenty months later, or December 
1, 1799. The contractor was to take his pay in lumber, and 
beef, and pork, butter and flax, at steelyard weight, all at the 
market price. Work on the house was commenced and pro- 
gressed during the summer of '98 and all appears prosperous 
in the West Parish. But when the first payment became due 
in the fall, some who bid off pews had left for unknown parts, 
and others being unable to pay, a deficiency stared them in the 
face. Unpleasant as it was for the young parish, they rallied 
heroically to the situation, and after relieving the remaining 
pew owners of their obligation (December 24, 1798), pro- 
ceeded to raise all the money for building and finishing the 
house by direct tax and appropriated the meeting house in all 
respects to the use of the parish at large. An attempt was 
made (February 14, 1799) to reconsider, but was quickly voted 
down. Twelve or fourteen tax-payers resisted the payment 
of this tax for denominational reasons and it resulted in 
bringing about one of the famous Baptist controversies of the 
day. Two test suits were taken to the courts and the Baptists 
won the day. An appeal w T as taken to the higher court and 
the decision was reversed. Two of the contestants were con- 
fined two days in jail. But after two years of contest in which 
the parish was successful, it showed its magnanimity by voting 
to rebate one-half his tax to each Baptist, with a total" loss of 
$178 by the controversy. On October 4, 1799, two months 



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ahead of contract time, tlie house was accepted as completed, 
and October 17, 1799, appointed as the day for dedication. 
Rev. Mr. Pomeroy, of Worthington, was invited to preach the 
sermon, Rev. Dr. Shepard, of Lenox, if Mr. Pomeroy could not 
be had. 

The exterior of the house was in general the same as now. 
The steeple was one story higher, and the angel Gabriel sound- 
ing his trumpet served as a weather vane instead of the 
present arrow. There were no blinds or bell ; the glass were 
7x9 and there were four windows on the north end. There 
were no horse sheds. The interior was all different. A high 
pulpit, with entrance gates at top of stairs ; old-fashioned square 
pews with seats on three sides; no carpet, no cushions, no stove. 
The first sexton was Tristram Browning. Salary $3.00 per 
year. The first committee to seat the meeting house was (cho- 
sen March 31, 1800) Nathaniel Tracy, James Wing and Henry 
Howard, but no plan of the seating can be found until 1809, a 
copy of which is on exhibition here to-day. 

After the town of Hinsdale was incorporated, (June 21, 
1804,) the affairs of the parish passed to its management and so 
continued until the present parish or society was organized, 
January 30, 1834. For thirty or forty years public gatherings 
and town meetings were held in this house. 

There have been four bells. In 1805, (March 4th) the 
town voted not to raise money for buying a bell, but two 
years later, or 1807, it voted "to raise $200 for the purpose of 
buying a bell and that Henry Howard be a committee to pro- 
cure a bell ; also that the said Henry Howard have liberty to 
call on Theodore Hinsdale, Jr., for the sum of $100 as an offer 
made the town heretofore for the purpose in part of procuring 
a bell."* Three months later (June 2, 1807), voted that 
Nathaniel Tracy be a committee in place of Henry Howard, 
deceased, to procure a bell for the meeting house agreeable to 

*This is the only record throwing any light on who the town was named 
for. 



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votes heretofore passed by the town on the subject. Nathaniel 
Tracy was paid $14.07 for going after the bell and Ichabod 
Emmons $13.00 for irons for the bell. Two years later (May 
11," 1809) they voted "to take out the light, loose, gi?igling 
tongue and replace it with one weighing twenty-eight pounds," 
and that the bell be rung from September 20th to March next 
at twelve o'clock at noon and nine o'clock at night. The new 
tongue proved disastrous, for, three years later, 1812, it was 
voted to replace the bell by getting a new one or repairing the 
old one, the money to be raised by subscription. And again, 
in 1851, a new bell had to be bought and this in turn exchanged 
the same year for a better sounding one which is now doing 
service. The committee in charge of the last were E. B. Tracy, 
Noadiah Emmons and Henry Merriman. 

For twenty or more winters the house was not warmed, but 
in 1820, (March 6th) it was "voted that the town approve of 
the doings of citizens who have erected a stove in the Congre- 
gational meeting house and do exonerate them from all lia- 
bility to pay damages which said stove may occasion/' 

In 1812, (March 12th) this vote was recorded: "Voted to 
deposit the town stock of ammunition in the meeting house 
above the plastering under the roof of said house." 

In 1834, (January 30th) the First Congregational society 
was organized. Charles H. Plunkett was Moderator; Ambrose 
Nicholson was Clerk; Daniel N. Warner, Treasurer; William 
Hinsdale, Robert Milliken and Lemuel Parsons, Parish Com- 
mittee. In 1846, the high pulpit and old square pews were 
taken out and the present pews substituted and other repairs 
and alterations made at an expense of $1,650, and two years 
later (April 3, 1848), blinds were put on at a cost "not ex- 
ceeding $300." The committee on repairs were Nodadiah 
Emmons, Henry Merriman, Charles K. Tracy. 

After the railroad was built and "Water street" sprang 
up, the question of removal or a new building agitated the 
parish eleven years. In 1846, (August 22d) the question of 



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moving the house to a site north of the road opposite Doctor 
Abel Kittridge's, now Mr. E. W. Clark's, was voted down ; in 
1851, to move to the ground where the Library now stands met 
the same fate. The same year it was proposed to build a new 
house 86x50, and more than half enough money was pledged, 
but this was abandoned. In 1857, after many a forensic strug- 
gle, this house was taken up bodily and brought three-quarters 
of a mile to this spot. 

In 1890 the chapel and ladies' rooms were built at a cost of 
about $2,500, the funds all being collected by the ladies, to 
whom the parish owes a lasting debt of gratitude. 



Finances and Benevolence. 



BY JAMES HOSMER. 



The old saying that "figures never lie" does not always hold 
in the present age, as they are often made to lie for a purpose; 
but in the case of the following report, any person interested 
can easily prove the statements by reference to the records of 
the church and society from their formation. 

I will not burden you with details, but give the total amounts 
which are more easily remembered. 

The church and society have raised for the supply of the 
pulpit and for current expenses, also church repairs and altera- 
tions since 1802, when Rev. Caleb Knight, the first pastor, was 
installed, the sum of $98,187.34, or an average of over $1,055 
per year for the last ninety-three years. 

In the matter of benevolences, the first record is in August, 
1821, when the church voted that six dollars be appropriated 
to the Eliot Mission for Indians. 

Up to the year 1847 about $1,750 was raised for benevolence, 
most of which was given to the Berkshire County Branch of 
the American Bible Society. In that .year, under the pastorate 
of Rev. Edward Taylor, was commenced a system of giving to 
various causes, and again renewed with more life and vigor 
than ever during the pastorate of Rev. Ephraiin Flint, which 
has continued until the present time. 

The total amount contributed, including that given previous 
to 1847, is $49,406.78, or an average of over $1,02!) each year 
for the past forty-eight years. 

This does not include money taken from the Sunday school 
penny collection and appropriated to our own Sunday school 



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library, or other purposes connected with the school ; but the 
amount stated as benevolences has all been given to the various 
missionary organizations of our denomination and for benevo- 
lent causes outside of this town. In justice to the Ladies' Be- 
nevolent, the Foreign Missionary and the younger missionary 
societies connected with the church, I would say that I only 
regret that the ladies did not raise between nine and ten dollars 
more, and then they would have had an even $10,000 as their 
share in the total amount of benevolence. They should also 
have the credit in addition of raising about $2,500 for the 
chapel. . 

The report does not include any of the expenses or benevo- 
lences of this year. 



TEARS. 

1827 to 1894. 
Inclusive 

1836 to 1894. 
Inclusive 

1847 to 1894. 

1847 to 1894. 



1869 to 
1847 to 
1847 to 

1870 to 
1858 to 
1873 to 
1870 to 
1880 to 



1894. 
1894. 
1894. 
1894. 
1894. 
1889. 
1894. 
1883. 



BENEVOLENCES. 

Berkshire Branch of the American Bible Society, $7,922.97 

Church Treasurer's record, (home use), 589.64 

American Home Missionary Society, 7,734.64 

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 

Missions, 10,257. 14 

American Missionary Association, 2,043 17 

Seamen's Friend Society, 2,310.53 

General causes, 7,115.82 

Given by the Sabbath School, 1,905.06 

Ladies' Benevolent Society, 5,456.47 

Mountain Rill Society 1,263.60 

Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society, 2,915.45 

Golden Links Society, $218.95 

Eigoramatba Society, 136.41 

Y. P. S. C. E....... 126.57 

481.93 

$49,406.78 



POEM. 



BY MISS PHEBE A. HOLDER, OF BERLIN, MASS. 



FOR THE HINSDALE CHURCH CENTENNIAL. 



"GO FORWARD." 



" Sing pagans over the Past, 

We bury the dead years tenderly, 
To find them again in Eternity, 
Safe in its cycles vast, 
Sing paeans over the Past." 

Church of our love, all hail ! all hail ! 

On this glad day we bring 
The choicest gifts of grateful hearts, 

Our sweetest songs we sing. 

Lifting its head amid the years 

Rises a lofty height, 
All beautiful with sunrise gold, 

Bathed in the Century's light. 
We pause upon this sunny crest, 

The place is hallowed ground, 
"The angel of the Lord conies down 

And glory shines around." 

Ours is a goodly heritage 

Of godly ancestry, 
And still their virtues live with us, 

In holy memory. 
And surely there is joy to-day 

In the fair Church above, 
They join our holy anthems sweet 

Unto our Lord of love. 

'Mid the green and golden glory 
Of this Eden of the year, 



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Berkshire's robes of glorious beauty- 
Fitting for the day appear. 
Everlasting hallelujahs 

Let us raise in grateful praise, 
As we stand beneath the arching 

Of our Century's crowning days. 
List the oratorio glorious, 

From the hills that round us stand, 
God has led us through the Century, 

Still He holds us by His hand. 
Henceforth, evermore, forever, 

God around His people waits, 
Cares for this, His chosen temple, 

Watches His own Zion's gates. 

Our God, our Fathers' God we wait 

Within Thy courts to-day, 
To consecrate our lives anew, 

And for Thy presence pray. 
We love the Church, this dear old Church, 

Whose aisles our fathers trod, 
All full of sacred memories 

Of loved ones with the Lord. 
We love the hymns, the dear old hymns 

We learned in childhood days, 
The hymns we sung in the old Church, 

With voice of prayer and praise. 

"Thus far the Lord has led me on," 

" There is a land of pure delight," 
"All hail the power of Jesus' Name," 

"While shepherds watch their flocks by night." 

Full oft from out His Church below, 

Unto His Church in Heaven 
The Master comes to take His own, 

The treasures He has given. 
So many dear ones gone before 

Who gathered with us here, 
They live with us again to-day, 

We feel their presence near. 
The sainted Pastor's tender face 

Seems smiling from above 
Over the Church for which he toiled 

With great, exceeding love. 



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His presence still seems o'er us brooding 

Amid these scenes so sweet and fair, 
Filled with his life and holy service, 

His cheerful spirit, love and prayer. 
Still upward, round by round his life-work, 

Waiting to hear the Master's word, 
Till on the shining golden stairway 

He met the angel of the Lord. 
Like the fair stream, pure, silent, flowing, 

Marking its path with living green, 
Was the true life whose loving service 

Is still in lives he served oft seen. 
His living monument is builded, 

We look around us and behold 
Where he has wrought his work so noble, 

More lasting than in lines of gold. 
As shrubs cut down in dew of morning 

Long after keep their fragrance sweet, 
So deeds of love in living essence, 

With rare perfume the years repeat. 
The beauty of his life still lingers, 

A pure light o'er his name to shed, 
His works do follow — deeds of blessing, 

A crown for the beloved dead. 

Still from the Past so tender we love to linger o'er, 

We turn to face the Future rising for us before. 

All wondrous is the vision our eyes behold to-day, 

'Tis glorious to be living, to walk the King's highway. 

The pulsing air seems vibrant, with inspiration rife, 

We feel its holy impulse, the more abundant life. 

The Lord of Life has risen, His glory fills the earth, 

The world's bright Easter morning now shows His glory forth. 

With light the heavens are flooded, new worlds of thought are found, 

Wide open doors of knowledge o'er all the earth abound. 

Behold the Orient glowing, the King of Day comes forth, 

The sunrise gold is flooding the newly wakened earth ; 

It shines upon wide prairies, gilds lofty mountain height, 

The Orient is radiant, Pacific shores are bright. 

Nearing the Century's summit we mount from height to height, 

Facing its open vision, its full electric light, 

We hail with joy the coming, we children of the King, 



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We go to meet the morning, our hearts glad tribute bring. 
Onward, still onward pressing with ever upward trend, 
Till dawns the morn of glory, whose day shall have no end. 

With every step we take we higher rise, 
The slope is upward, whither lies our way. 

The line of vision a new level strikes 
As pace by pace we mount each new-born day. 

On everything the dew of morning hangs, 
Each breath we draw with sweetest fragrance rife, 

The thrill of inspiration fills our souls 

With bounding pulse of new upspringing life. 

Heart answers heart and soul to soul responds 
.As we keep step with joyful upward trend, 
Our eyes are fixed on sunlit mountain tops 
Of aspiration, which enchantment lend. 

A summit gained, a smooth green table-land, 
Which this glad day our feet with joy have trod 

Grand reaches still before with sunset gold — 
Beyond the sunset are the Hills of God. 

O'er them the everlasting morn shall rise, 
The gates will open, we shall enter in, 

To the dear presence of our Master, Lord, 
To grow in love with Him we loved unseen. 

And may this goodly heritage 

We have received from God's own hand 
Transmitted still by us, be left 

For those who in our places stand. 
Ne'er may the candlestick remove 

Of this dear Church from out its place, 
Its light ne'er dim, but still shine on, 

Fed by God's never-failing grace. 

With growing radiance year by year, 

From century to century still, 
May its pure shining show to souls 

The way to Heaven, the Father's will. 
The love of God, the Father, 

The grace of Christ, the Son, 
Communion of the Spirit 

Be yours till life is done. 



Extracts from Letters. 



READ BY MR. HOSMER, CLERK OF THE CHURCH. 



Mrs. Keziah Payne Barrett, 86 years old, of Belleville, Ohio. 

I don't know as I can contribute one item that would be of 
interest to your coming centennial, but can well remember 
much of the history of the dear old church on the hill, which 
my father and others selected as a suitable location, it being a 
sightly place. I can't tell the dates. 

I was born in April, 1809, and my earliest recollections of a 
preacher was that of Rev. Caleb Knight. He was a favorite 
preacher with many, and in particular of my mother, and she, 
being a member, had us children baptized. We were brought 
up to go to church and reverence the preacher, and he was 
called a sweet preacher, but moderate in all his movements, 
celebrated for long prayers and sermons. I well remember 
many a winter our team was harnessed and the family went to 
church in the morning, carried a little lunch for dinner, also 
a little tin foot, stove, encased in a wooden frame, and in it a 
pan of wood coals and ashes to warm our feet, and during the 
one hour intermission at noon, sent some one to the hotel to 
recruit the pan of coals, and then was ready for the afternoon 
service, and many a time did not reach home till the sun was 
setting, but we had heard two excellent sermons and two Ions: 
prayers in a church with no fire, standing on a hill that took 
the wind from every quarter. The church then was divided 
into pews and ours was located in the north-west corner, with 
old Mr. Wentworth as seat-mate. I presume Mrs. Dea. Clark 
can tell you how she and I sat there shivering all day, times 
innumerable. After Mr. Knight, they had no settled -preacher 
till the Rev. William Jlawley was settled, lie was a well edu- 



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cated, active business man. During his administration the 
church underwent repairs, and, though opposed by some, stoves 
were put in, which made it more comfortable. He preached 
many an evening at my father's house (instead of the school 
house), as I had a brother that was an invalid from rheuma- 
tism,— name, Daniel Payne, who was a member of the church. 
He died in January, *26. The funeral was attended at our 
home, Mr. Hawley preaching a sermon, as he also did at the 
funeral of my father, in December, '34. He was a very bigoted, 
rigid man in the Calvanistic doctrine and did not fail to preach 
it, and I was brought by mother to take the pill. 

I will here quote a little of my own history : In the fall of 
'24, I think, Charles G. Finney, an evangelist from Oberlin, 
preached three evenings in succession in the old church, and I 
went to hear him. Mr. Hawley discarded him then as preach- 
ing "New Measure" doctrine, and told me, while in conversa- 
tion on the subject, that he did not want a Finney, Burchard 
or Stone of Oberlin to make revivals for him. Well, he was 
our pastor in December, '28. He officiated at my marriage to 
Haskell Barrett, and in July, '30, buried our only child at seven 
months old. 

Early in the fall of '33, a Mr. Stone, an evangelist from 
Oberlin, came to Dalton, held a meeting there, and a great 
revival followed, and they hired him to preach six months, and 
my husband attended some of the meetings in Dalton, and the 
first of November, '33, we were both, by God's grace, brought 
into the full liberty of the gospel, and could see a fullness in 
Christ to save all that would come to him on the terms of the 
gospel. Mr. Hawley preached, talked and expostulated with 
us but we could not see as he did, though supported him for 
three years later, and in '36 took up our cross and united with 
the Methodist church in Dalton. 



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Mrs. Myra Hinsdale Brewer, of Le Roy, N. Y. 

Memory extends to my early childhood. There was a com- 
mittee appointed annually to reseat the congregation that wor- 
shipped there. Such men as Mr. Huntington, Mr. James 
Wing, Mr. Tyler, Mr. Adams, Mr. Merriman, Dr. Abel Kit- 
tredge, Mr. Oliver Colt. The elderly people were given seats 
near the pulpit. Major Emmons, Deacon Bassett, Deacon 
Clarke, and many others I could mention, with their families, 
occupied the square pews in the meeting house, as it was then 
called. Mr. Hawley was then our minister. He carefully 
tended his flock. Elder Jackson, who was the Baptist minister, 
wished feo exchange pulpits and Mr. Hawley said, "No, we 
must not let the bars down," so there w T as no exchange. The 
bars are down — we are partial to our own home church, the 
Congregational, yet we can worship with those who love our 
Saviour truly and sincerely, of whatever denomination, who 
take the word of God as their guide in all the varied duties of 
life. 

I am truly interested in the review of the life of the Con- 
gregational church in Hinsdale. 



Mrs. Flora Hawley Putnam, of Rosamond, 111. 

The memories of my childhood, that I passed with mv father 
at the old parsonage and farm in Hinsdale, are very clear, and 
many of them very precious. 

Seventy years ago father depended somewhat upon the farm, 
as well as the salary he had from the parish and church. He 
kept sheep and cows, and raised wool, and made butter, more 
than was used in the family. He did not labor very much 
himself upon the farm. The study was his place first; the 
farm was secondary. The wool and flax that came into the 
house to be spun and wove, and made into cloth, is very clear 
to my mind now; but this was soon changed, and the loom and 
the spinning wheels stood idle in the garret of the parsonage. 



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The ministers and agents for various causes of benevolence, 
who were entertained at the parsonage during those early years, 
felt that they got a little inspiration from the bottle ; and there 
was one that stood there for a short time, but it soon disap- 
peared, never to be replaced, for father was, even in early days, 
a strong temperance man. 

I call to mind many of the ministers with whom my father 
exchanged. There was Mr. Jennings of Dal ton, who had a 
long pastorate there, and was often at the parsonage. 1 learned 
to know him very well. Indeed, to know him once, was always 
to know him, and to remember his eccentricities. Then, there 
w T as Dr. Dorrance of Windsor, Brewster of Peru, Dr. Sheppard 
of Lenox, who, after seeing, and hearing him pray, we would 
remember, for he was a man " mighty in prayer." Then there 
was Nash of Middlelield and Balentine of Washington. The 
ministers settled over those Berkshire churches were mostly 
there for life. 

I call to mind many young men who studied with father, 
and fitted for college : — John Buss, John Bisbee, Eli Adams, 
and many others at different times. 

He was very much interested in the public schools of Hins- 
dale, for the many years he was there, and he did all he could, 
which was much, to promote their interests. 

He loved the church and people of Hinsdale very much 
from the start; and when the revival of 1827 commenced 
(which I well remember), and brought so many heads of fami- 
lies into the church, it seemed to bind them in a bond that 
could not be broken. He loved them to the last, and when 
the time came for separation, he went away sad and sorrowing. 
He lived but a few years after, in poor health, and died in 
Sunderland, having given up the ministry in 1854. 

I, and my older children, remember with a good deal of sat- 
isfaction the church and people of Hinsdale (my native place) 
and may the next century of its existence have within it as 



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many noble and Christian people as it lias had in the past one 
hundred years. 



Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Hume, of Manteno, Illinois. 

We most sincerely regret our inability to be with your people 
and enjoy the exercises of the day. Here permit me to say 
that my wife and myself have always been most interested in 
the affairs of your church and people since leaving them many 
years ago. 

We have, from time to time, taken notice through reports, 
etc., of the growth, prosperity and liberality of your congrega- 
tion and people, with pleasure. 

We assure you that we shall be with you in thought and 
sympathy. 

Mr. Eugene H. Paddock, of New York City. 

My recollections of the church date from the year 1854. 
The edifice was then located on the hill, and as a child I was a 
regular attendant for one year, and very distinct are my mem- 
ories of the interior as it appeared at service Sunday morning, 
— the reverent spirit of the worshippers, the choir, the preacher, 
— I remember them all, and I should esteem it a great privi- 
lege if I could be present August 28th. 

The Hinsdale Congregational church, like many another 
church of New England, has been the means of building up 
Christian character in the family and in social life. Its influ- 
ence was strongly felt in the little household at Hamilton, 
where my mother watched over her little flock of six children, 
faithfully endeavoring to instill into their minds the principles 
of faith and doctrine that she herself had been taught in the 
Hinsdale church. 

I acknowledge with dee}) gratitude my obligations to that 
church. May it continue to prosper and may those who bear 
the burdens of caring for it be richly blessed in their work and 
labor of love. 



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Rgy. Fr. D. F. Cronin, of Hinsdale, Mass. 

You have reason to rejoice and celebrate with all pomp and 
ceremony the ripe and vigorous age of your church in this 
town. I rejoice heartily with you on this interesting occasion, 
and although I may not be present with you, I wish you every 
prosperity and good fortune. 

Rev. H. C. Haskell, Missionary at SamokOY, Bulgaria. 

It would indeed give me very great pleasure to be with you 
at the celebration, but as that may not be, I shall be much 
pleased to be represented by a brief letter. I say " brief," be- 
cause however long I make it, it will still be short considering 
the interest I feel in Hinsdale and the rush of recollections I 
would like to give in it. 

I went to Hinsdale a boy of seventeen, in April, 1853, to "fit 
for college" at the Academy. My uncle, P. K. Clark, had been 
called to the pastorate there I think the year before. At the 
head of the Academy was Prof. I. N. Lincoln, whom I esteem 
as one of my best teachers and friend — a rare man, of blessed 
memory. 

At the end of freshman year at Williams our class gave him 
an ebony, gold-headed cane with the motto, "Serves in coelum 
vedeas," but alas, this was not the will of the Heavenly Father, 
for, as you know, he died quite young, I think in the summer of 
1862. He was a thorough and enthusiastic teacher. 1 have very 
pleasant memories, too, of his successors, Mr. Goodrich and Mr. 
Lombard. A good number of my fellow students were fine 
fellows, whose friendship I love to recall, — "Charley" Peirce, 
Apthorpe, Elmore, Parsons, Barrows, William A. Lloyd, (not 
to be forgotten) and my special friend of those days, George 
Wright. There were others with whom my acquaintance was 
shorter. Some of the young ladies of the school, too, I remem- 
ber with much interest, as those of Dr. Kittredge's family, of 
Marshall Peirce's and others. 

But my memories of the place are not altogether of the 



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Academy, (thankful as I am for the years of sound Christian 
education it gave me). How I love to think of the Christian 
privileges I enjoyed in the old church there on the hill and in 
the prayer meeting in Emmons' Hall. There I got the use of 
my tongue in public prayer and "remarks." What a line 
neighborhood that was, too, "on the flat" where we lived, — 
the Emmons families, Dr. Kittredge's, Mr. Colt's, Deacon Mc- 
Elwaine's, Mr. Barrows, Deacon White and Deacon Prince in 
the stone house, some whose names have gone from me, and 
dear Mrs. Charles Wright's, whom I can't forget. Then Abel 
Kittredge's and others on the road to school. Two winters I 
taught school in Hinsdale, one in the "North woods," and how 
I did enjoy my acquaintances there — Mr. Lysander Francis and 
his good father and mother, Deacon Clark and his two sons and 
families, Marshall and Erastus Peirce and their families, Elijah 
Wentworth and family, where it was a delight to board, or 
even spend a night on returning from singing school. That 
singing school too, I have always been thankful to the Hins- 
dale church for. My second winter I taught in the Depot dis- 
trict, and there I found some choice families: — Mr. Plunkett's 
(whose son George I am gratified to find hasn't forgotten me 
yet), C. J. Kittredge's, Mr. Putnam's over on the hill, some of 
the factory hands, and Deacon Nash, Mr. Davis, and a good 
number whose names in these few summers have escaped from 
me, though I trust they are written in the "Book of Life." 

As my uncle was pastor, he introduced me to families I 
might not otherwise have known. I recall several in the 
"Cheeseman" neighborhood: Deacon Hinsdale's, the Parsons, 
Mr. Goodrich's, (who was a Methodist, if I remember rightly) 
whose son Chauncey was a school and college friend — -and who 
made maple sugar to make our mouths water. There were 
others over that way, too, whom I can't now recall. Well, niv 
memories of old Hinsdale are very pleasant, though I suppose 
but few of the men and women of forty years ago "ire there 
now. How I would like to thank them for the school privi- 



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leges I there enjoyed, (but for that academy I would never 
have known Hinsdale), and for the church privileges, and the 
personal friendships. I trust they will be renewed in the bet- 
ter land where 

"Those who meet shall part no more 
And those long parted, meet again." 

I was then in my youth and everything was fresh. How I 
enjoyed those hills and seeing the cars glide through the valley 
from my study window; and picking the blackberries! More 
blackberries and larger, sweeter, more luscious ones I never 
found. 

Of course my situation in the family of my dear uncle, of 
blessed memory, was a sort of indispensable condition of the 
profit and pleasure of my Hinsdale life. Some of my friends 
here say I am a " Puritan of the Puritans," — and such seemed 
our Hinsdale church to me in the days of yore. Not that I 
esteem Puritanism perfect — (see how my Puritanism comes 
out, right in this letter of friendship !) but we Puritans must 
strive without ceasing to attain to the meekness and gentleness, 
and loving kindness and tenderness and sympathy which were 
shown so perfectly in Christ. 

It may not be out of place in closing to say a word of my 
family and work. We were in America fifteen years, (1872- 
1887) and since the last date have been here, — i. e., my wife 
and I. Our son, Edward B., (twenty-nine years old) took his 
course of study at Marietta and Oberlin; was married nearly 
four years ago and came out here ; is located in Salonica, and 
has one child. Mary (some four years younger) studied at 
Oberlin, came out here in 1890, and is a teacher in the Girls' 
Boarding School in Samokov. Harry (twenty-one) is about to 
enter senior year at Oberlin. I have been teaching and preach- 
ing since coming back here, and since 1890, have been "Di- 
rector of the College and Theological Institute" here. It gives 
a seven years' course, and fits men for the ministry. 

There are agitations and commotions in the political world 



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here. Stambouloff, their greatest statesman, was brutally fallen 
upon in his carriage, in Sophia, and murdered, (or so badly 
wounded he died on Thursday) we hear on last Monday, near 
evening. But, "The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice." 
And now in saying good-bye, I assure you, Hinsdale friends, 
of my warm interest in the welfare of your town and church, 
and of my prayers for God's special presence on your festal 
day, and His continued blessing for the hundred years to come. 
In the bonds of Christian love. 



Hon. James "White, of Williamstown, Mass. 

I regret exceedingly that, on account of ill health, I am un- 
able to accept your very kind invitation to be present at the 
Centennial of the Hinsdale Congregational church. I have 
very vivid recollections of the deep interest my parents and 
grandparents had in constantly attending upon its ministrations. 
For myself, I cannot forget the doctrinal preaching of Rev. 
Mr. Hawley; the Calvanism I heard from him wrenched my 
soul and caused me great suffering in my early youth. I do 
not cease to bless the Lord that my children did not hear it. 

I remember Mr. Banister as a gentleman and Mrs. Banister 
as an ideal minister's wife. 

To Dr. Edward Taylor I am ever grateful, as the human 
instrumentality in leading me into the kingdom, lie also en- 
couraged me to unite with the church my first term in college, 
which was of great help to me. 

Rev. Perkins K. Clark had the misfortune to come to the 
church when the question of removing the meeting-house was 
under discussion. Many who lived in the West village took 
no interest in his coming because they wanted the question of 
removal to be settled first. He was an exceedingly fine scholar, 
had. been a tutor in Yale college, and was the intimate friend 
of Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D. D., LL. D., then pastor of 
the Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, and for many years 
one of the most eminent men in our denomination. I have 



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occasion personally to remember Mr. Clark because he married 
me to the very best woman ever raised in the Hinsdale church. 

The Rev. Dr. Twining brought to the pastorate great intel- 
lectual ability and a fund of good humor. He contributed 
very greatly to my father's enjoyment by loaning him such 
books as " The Sermons of Dr. Buslmell." 

Dr. Flint was my classmate and for three years my room- 
mate in college, and always my intimate friend. He came 
from a godly family, was a good preacher, and an eminently 
spiritual man. 

As for its present pastor, the church never had a better man 
for its minister. 

With such a line of pastors, it would be expected that the 
membership would include, as for the most part it surely has, 
the financial, intellectual and social strength of the town. Cer- 
tainly, for the last fifty years, the church has not ceased to have 
men of uncommon ability and Christian character. 

My hope and prayer for the church is that in the century to 
come its high standard may ever be maintained. 



Mr. Ralph H. White, of Boston. 

Received your kind invitation to attend the Centennial An- 
niversary of the Congregational church at Hinsdale, and while 
there is. great doubt of my being able to attend, (which I very 
much regret) I extend to the good people of Hinsdale, and 
particularly to those accustomed to worship in this historic 
church, my hearty congratulations. At such a time my 
thoughts naturally revert to my boyhood days, and the pleasant 
years I lived in this beautiful hill-town pass before me as a 
panorama, full of the beauties of nature and the exquisite love- 
liness which the Almighty so generously bestowed upon this 
section of the Berkshire Hills. 

To me it seems almost as yesterday, when on every Sabbath 
morning I was required by my good father and mother (who 
now rest peacefully in your burying ground) to put on my 



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Sunday clothes and usually walk to this ancient church, then 
situated on what was called the flat, but singular enough our 
forefathers were particular to build their churches upon what 
seemed to me the highest hill they could find. I have no 
doubt they reasoned that exercise was good for the body if not 
for the soul. 

No one who has not baffled with the storms and adversity of 
an active business life in a great city can realize the pictures 
that come to one's memory when he looks back to his boyhood 
days passed as mine were among the Berkshire Hills. I seem 
to see the sparkling and pure water of my favorite trout brook 
where I have strolled many a mile in peace and happiness even 
if I didn't catch a fish, and the still and quiet meadow stream 
where I caught my first mink. All these things and many 
more remind me most forcibly of those happy days never to 
return to me again. 

It seems almost incredible to me that this good old meeting 
house has lived to be one hundred years old, yet such is the 
fact, and while many of those who knew me in my childhood 
have passed on to a higher and better life, I cannot close this 
letter without wishing all those who take part in this Centen- 
nial my best wishes and God's blessing. 

It has occurred to me that a church one hundred years old 
ought to have a new coat — of paint. I therefore take great 
pleasure in enclosing my check for $300 for that express pur- 
pose. 

GIFT OF MKS. ZENAS CRANE, OF DALTON. 

The officers of this church, in behalf of the church and so- 
ciety, desire to express their thanks to Mrs. Ellen Kittredge 
Crane, a former member of the church, for the beautiful mar- 
ble clock recently given and placed upon the front of gallery. 



Former Pastors Deceased. 



REV. JOHN LELAND AND REV. CALEB KNIGHT. 



BY MISS SARAH BOWEN. 



Without observation, without the 'presence of the great or 
honored, or the voice of choir or harp, with only vows and 
simple faith, this church was formed, one autumn day, a hun- 
dred years ago, yet a mighty power for good was set in motion. 

We, their successors, have kept the faith of our fathers and 

still as members of this now ancient church, serve 

" Our father's God 

From out whose hand 

The centuries fall like grains of sand." 

This prosperity has been due, in a large measure, to the conse- 
cration of the pastors, who, one after another, have ministered 
to this people in holy things. While it is true that "in the 
long succession from first to last, every life speaks and is heard " 
these good men have, in a peculiar manner, impressed them- 
selves and their uplifting faith upon their hearers. 

The shepherd who first felt responsible for the little Hock 
was the Rev. John Leland, who had then for thirteen years 
faithfully served the mother church upon the hill, afterward, 
at his suggestion, called Peru. 

In the beginning, every fifth, and at other times every third 
or fourth Sabbath, he came to this distant part of his field and 
for four years he preached in private houses, in the school 
house, and for some months in a barn. 

In 1799 the present church edifice was completed, and for 
two years more Mr. Leland, oftener than any other, sowed the 
precious seed by the wayside and from this pulpit. 



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And the good parson was, in Iris sphere, a notable man. He 
descended from an old English family, with an heraldic coat of 
arms and the significant motto, "cui debeo fidus." To what I 
am indebted, I am faithful. But his ancestors came early to 
America, and he was born into the household of a Massachu- 
setts farmer and enjoyed an early education only sufficient to 
enable him to succeed as a schoolmaster. 

When thirty years of age, at the beginning of the Itevolu- 
tiou, he held a captain's commission and led his company at 
the battle of Bunker Hill. Before the close of the war, how- 
ever, he was deeply impressed with a desire to become a gospel 
minister, and after many delays while trying to make amends 
for a lack of classical training, he was ready for his work. 

When he came to his first and only pastorate in Partridge- 
field he was nearly forty years of age, and for nearly another 
forty years he labored with efficiency and success. 

Although a man of humble life and influenced by the temp- 
tations and discouragements of his lot, his biographer has left 
this testimony. "He soon became one of the most successful 
preachers and his church one of the largest, most united, and 
useful in the vicinity. As a guide to immortal souls, as an ex- 
ample of kindness and fidelity, as a vigilant watchman on the 
walls of Zion and as a most useful member of civil society, his 
praise was in all the churches." 

Mr. Leland's stated salary was $200, and he had, beside, a 
small farm, but he was so engrossed in ministerial work that 
from it he derived only a scanty income. Surely he received 
the promised " needful things" while seeking/?'/\s^ the kingdom 
of God, for he lived comfortably, trained seven children, giving 
to each a common education and to the youngest a college 
course, dispensed liberal hospitality, wore fine silk stockings 
and silver knee-buckles on important occasions and owed no 
man anything. Yet he must not be allowed to bear off all the 
honors, for his wife, Hepzibah, "was of price above rubies and 
the heart of her husband safely trusted in her." 



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Mr. Leland's special responsibility for the church at West 
Parish ceased when in 1802, it was ready to welcome a pastor 
of its own. The original membership had doubled and, with 
its new meeting house, success seemed assured. 




REV. CALEB KNIGHT. 



The pastor-elect, Rev. Caleb Knight, was a native of Lisbon, 
Connecticut, was graduated from Williams College, and had 
just completed his theological course with Rev. Dr. Backus of 
Somers, Connecticut, when, with his bride, he came to cast in 
his lot with this people. 

The names of the neighboring clergymen who were invited 
in council to ordain and install the young candidate are still 
familiar in our homes. They were the Rev. Messrs. Collins of 
Lanesborough, Dorrance of Windsor, Pomeroy of Worthing- 
ton, Ballantine of Washington, Nash of Middlefield, Leland of 
Partridgefield and Allen of Pittstield. Thus being set apart, 
the new minister hopefully commenced his labors. 

Instead of the training of the Sunday school and the Chris- 
tian Endeavor Society, the youth of those times were taught 



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the Westminster Catechism and recited it on Sunday evenings, 
or when the minister called, either at home or at school. 

Mr. Knight enjoyed this feature of his work. On the occa- 
sions of his frequent visits to the school on Maple street, after 
receiving the respectful salutation of the pupils, he was accus- 
tomed to continue the exercises by asking the trembling occu- 
pants of the nearest bench "The chief end of man," or to de- 
fine "sin" or "sanctification." The answers were sure to be 
promptly and correctly given. 

At church, the pastor proclaimed his message to old and 
young. Although the gem of truth had sometimes a cumbrous 
setting and the ninthly of the sermon coincided with the ninety 
minutes by the clock, yet the message thus presented was 
gladly received except, perhaps, on a sultry August afternoon, 
or when the Thanksgiving turkey was growing cold at home. 

So, during the opening years of this, wonderful century, 
through a period of religious declension fostered by French in- 
fidelity, through a second war with England, when the camp 
nurtured vice, when party feeling ran high and times were 
hard, this godly man served his people and his country by 
keeping his faith intelligent and bright and preaching the 
simple gospel to needy souls. 

Mr. Knight's salary was $366.66 2-3, but it appears that 
when his expenses grew larger, this sum was insufficient, and, 
becoming financially embarrassed, he asked for an increase. 
As the town did not vote to do this, he resigned his charge in 
1816; however, as a token of friendship, he was afterwards pre- 
sented with $200. 

During his fourteen years of faithful labor, the membership 
of the Hinsdale church had increased to one hundred and ten. 
Mr. Knight spent several years in Home Missionary work and 
had afterward three pastorates, one of which was in Washing- 
ton, in this county, from 1826-1836, when he sometimes re- 
visited his first charge and preached again in this pulpit. 

At last his work on earth was done, and, like Parson Lelaud, 



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he received the loving care of his children and was gathered 
to his fathers in a good old age. 

These pastors long ago dead still speak to lis. Their influ- 
ence has been constantly repeated during the two succeeding 
generations and is felt in the lives of many who are here to-day. 

We rejoice in the good they were enabled to accomplish and 
in the assurance that to each was vouchsafed the reward which 
only consecrated souls can win. " An honored life, a peaceful 
end, and Heaven to crown it all." 




REV. W. A. HAWLEY. 

REV. WILLIAM A. HAWLEY 



BY HON. C. J. KITTREDGE. 



Rev. William Augur Hawley, the second pastor of the Con- 
gregational church in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, was horn in 
Huntington, Connecticut, April 23, 1788. It is recorded of 
him that "In early life he was uncommonly fond of study and 
consecrated himself to the service of his Master. This circum- 
stance, in connection with others, induced him to enter upon a 
course of study with reference to the ministry." 

After graduating at Williams College, in 1816, he studied 
theology with the Rev. Dr. Catlin of New Marlboro, Massa- 
chusetts. He was ordained and installed pastor of this church 
July 16, 1817. 

He was to receive an annual salary of $450, besides a settle- 



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ment of $400, to be paid in four annual installments, counting 
from bis ordination ; tbe last installment being due in July, 
1821. 

In March, 1821, he addressed a communication to the town, 
which has been preserved. Although somewhat lengthy, it so 
clearly shows his unselfish regard for, and appreciation of his 
people, also something of the contrast between the condition of 
minister and people then and now, it may not be inappropriate 
to present it on this occasion. 

COPY OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENT NOW ON FILE. 

"To the Inhabitants of Hinsdale, 

Respected Gentlemen : — In the good providence of God four years have 
nearly revolved since we entered into the interesting relation of minister 
and people. In reviewing the past, I am constrained to acknowledge the 
goodness of Him who rules over all, in preserving to us so good a degree 
of peace and mutual friendship ; at the same time I feel myself bound to 
acknowledge with gratitude the kindness and liberality of the people, and 
also their punctuality in meeting their engagements. Considering the 
change of the times, in the fall of the price of produce, and the embarrass- 
ments which this has imposed in business and calculations made previously 
to the change, these have exceeded my most sanguine expectations. I 
also consider that this has been done when the people have been subject 
to an unusual burden in supporting the unfortunate poor. This with the 
change of times has caused a great disproportion compared with former 
years, between the amount of taxes to be paid and the means of paying 
them. Whilst it has been more difficult to raise money, the amount to be 
raised, instead of diminishing, has rather increased. Though I have every 
reason to believe that the inhabitants of this town are cheerful to bear their 
part in the public burdens, and will ever be forward to support the public 
institutions and defray the public expense incurred by objects that are the 
praise of an enlightened country : though I have every reason to believe 
this : yet my own judgment teaches me that it is highly important to ac- 
commodate the public burdens, as much as may be, to the ability of bear- 
ing them. If money has become more valuable, it is reasonable that a less 
sum should be required to answer the same object. 

Indeed it is apparent that when the means of subsistence are cheaper, 
the expense of living must be diminished. These considerations have led 
me to think it expedient to embrace this opportunity, w r hen the inhabitants 
of this town are convened to provide for the public expense of the current 
year, and submit the following statement respecting my own circumstances. 



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Most or all the gentlemen present here, doubtless know, that when I set- 
tled here, I was destitute of property. The expenses of my education had 
consumed my small patrimony and the small earnings saved to that time, 
except what was in my horse. 

I had therefore to commence the support of my family on the provision 
made by the town. It has ever been an object with me to live as prudently 
as possible in my station. It will not be necessary for me to go into a de- 
tailed statement of my expenses from that time to the present. I would 
however, observe that the expenses of the first year fell but a trifle short of 
the whole amount of my salary. Since that time, I have kept no particu- 
lar account. Two ) 7 ears ago this present spring I purchased my place, for 
which I bound myself to pay fourteen hundred dollars. Of this sum, 
aided by the settlement, subscribed by individuals, and raised by the town, 
I have been able to pay seven hundred and fifty dollars, and the interest ; 
six hundred and fifty dollars therefore remain to be paid in the following 
installments, two hundred next fall, two hundred the fall after, and two 
hundred and fifty one year from that. I should also observe that these 
notes are so circumstanced that I shall be obliged to pay them at the time, 
that is, it will not be practicable, owing to circumstances, to negotiate a 
delay of payment for any length of time. Besides these debts, I find my- 
self now involved in smaller debts due to individuals, to amount of one 
hundred and twenty-five dollars or thereabouts, perhaps a trifle over this. 

These small debts, accordiug to the expectation of my creditors, must be 
paid wdthin the current year. Gentlemen will understand then, that the 
amount of my debt now is seven hundred and seventy-five dollars, exclu- 
sive of the interest, which is to be paid annually, and that I am under ob- 
ligations to pay three hundred and twenty-five dollars of this debt, with 
the interest on the six hundred and fifty dollars, this year making the. 
amount to be paid next fall three hundred and sixty-four dollars. It per- 
haps ought to be stated that there are other little debts now due, which 
are not brought iuto the account, because I have money due me to an 
amount sufficient to balance them. 

It will be perceived that the demands against me, taking into considera- 
tion the support of my family, are sufficient to consume all the monies due 
from the town at the expiration of the year closing next July. But trust- 
ing that with the blessing of God, I may be able to make a shift in some 
way without specially injuring my creditors, 1 have judged it expedient 
to relinquish the remaining installment of my settlement, and do hereby 
relinquish to the town of Hinsdale the installment of one hundred dollars, 
due next July, it being a part of the settlement then to be paid, and this 
shall be a certificate of the same. 

In justice to myself and the people of the town, I would say that I am 
not induced to make this relinquishment by any complaints made to me, 



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but from a deliberate consideration of the circumstances of the times. So 
far as I know myself, I wish to live with the people of my charge and not 
upon them. 

If they suffer by unavoidable changes, I would bear my part with them, 
and judging from the past, I am persuaded that they would wish no 
more. Still it must be acknowledged difficult to manage with salaries in 
such a manner, that they shall always be equally light to those who pay, 
and sufficient for those who receive. But on this subject I need not dwell. 

Wishing you peace and prosperity I remain your obedient servant in the 
gospel. 

William A. Hawley. 

March 12, 1821." 

He was endowed with good powers of mind and body, which 
he assiduously cultivated for enlarging his influence and use- 
fulness. Many young men prepared for college or the ministry 
in his study : some of them are well remembered, particularly 
that excellent man, the late Rev. J. H. Bisbee, who often in 
later years preached from this pulpit, and was always heartily 
welcomed, and highly esteemed by church and people. 

He preached two written sermons, on Sundays, besides others 
at lectures and funerals. His sermons were Biblical and showed 
he had intense faith in the Word of God. His interpretation 
of scripture, and earnest exhortations at the w r eekly conference 
meetings, are remembered as instructive and impressive. He 
aimed to secure the intelligent assent of his hearers to the 
truths of Christianity and their complete consecration to its 
service. / 

He heartily embraced and emphatically preached the faith 
adopted by this church at its formation. 

His preaching and life contributed much to the prosperity, 
stability and liberal character, which have marked the history 
of this church and people. 

From published records made by himself about 1828, it ap- 
pears that in the winter of 1818, a revival of religion was ex- 
perienced pretty generally through the town, which resulted 
in the addition of about thirty to the Congregational church 
and several to the Baptist. In 1821, a second revival was ex- 



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perienced which brought into the Congregational church about 
twenty-five. 

These revivals produced a very visible and important change 
in the state of society. The refining influence of religion was 
spread very generally through the town ; many of the most re- 
spectable and influential youth were brought into the church, 
and hopefully under the sanctifying power of divine truth; a 
new impulse was given to charitable exertions for the spread 
of the gospel. In 1827, there was a third revival more general 
and powerful than either of the others, which resulted in the 
addition of fifty to the Congregational church and a few to the 
Baptist and Methodist. 

Efforts to spread the gospel have kept pace with the advance- 
ment of religion, and societies are systematically patronized for 
the great object of sending the gospel to the destitute. 

While the record gives no light as to the human means used 
to secure these revivals, it is safe to assume that they resulted 
from his faithful preaching and labors, rather than from the 
introduction of "New Measure" methods — so called — which 
were popular with some in those times, but which he was too 
conservative to regard with entire confidence. 

Other revivals were doubtless experienced during the later 
years of his ministry of which there is no special record, but 
the large additions to the church in 1831-'36 and '37, testify 
to the presence of the revival spirit. 

It was during his ministry that the first Sunday school in 
the town was organized. The "Hinsdale Branch Bible So- 
ciety," the present system of monthly and annual collections 
for benevolent purposes, and the present "Ladies Benevolent 
Society," which has carried comfort and happiness into many 
missionary homes in the west, had their origin in these early 
days, all being earnestly and ably advocated and sustained by 
the pastor and his excellent wife, who was sympathetic with, 
and greatly aided him in his labors and trials, in advancing the 
temporal and spiritual interests of this church and people. 



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He was actively interested in all public matters pertaining 
to the improvement of the town, especially in education and 
temperance, being chairman of the school committee many 
years, and doing much to raise the standard of education, 
general intelligence and good morals. 

But few are present, who personally knew him, to testify 
from observation to his character and usefulness here, but I 
am sure that many, especially the like faithful pastors, his suc- 
cessors, who honor this occasion with their presence, have seen 
and appreciated its value, and will gladly unite in honoring 
him and praising the Lord Jesus Christ, his Lord and ours, for 
his faithful service here. 

A lady now living in Ohio, eighty-seven years old, who was 
in Mr. Hawley's family many years — not a relative — replied to 
our invitation by an interesting letter to a friend here in which 
she refers to him in these words : — 

"I wish to add my testimony to the goodness of one of the 
pastors, for there never was a better man — or a truer heart beat 
in human breast — than Mr. Hawley. He may have erred, but 
I cannot look back upon the time I spent in his family and re- 
call anything I can censure him for or wish to have otherwise." 

There were two hundred and thirty-eight additions to the 
church during his ministry, seventy-four by letters and one 
hundred and sixty- four by profession. There were also several 
cases of church discipline, some of them causing serious aliena- 
tions and dissentions, which ultimately led to his requesting 
dismission, which, to the regret of many, was granted in Janu- 
ary, 1841, after a pastorate of more than twenty-three years. 

In July of the same year, he was installed at Plainfield, 
Massachusetts, and after a ministry of a little more than six 
years, was dismissed in October, 1847. 

He subsequently supplied for a few years in East Hawley, 
and other places, as his health permitted. 

A few weeks before his death, he removed to Sunderland, to 
spend his remaining days in the family of his son-in-law, Mr. 



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JBrainard Smith, where lie died May 20, 1854, aged sixty-six 
years, in the confident hope of a blessed immortality, and the 
reward promised to that servant who was "faithful over a few 
things." 

He had seven children ; the first born died in infancy. Six, 
two sons and four daughters, with his wife, survived him. 




REV. S. W. BANISTER. 

REV. S. W. BANISTER AND REV. P. K. CLARK. 



BY REV. EDSON L. CLARK. 



Rev. Seth Warririer Banister was born at Brookfield, Massa- 
chusetts, January 15, 1811. He fitted for college at Amherst 
Academy, graduated at Amherst in 1835, at Andover in 1839, 
and was ordained and installed pastor of this church June 2, 
1841. Mr. Banister came to Hinsdale, bringing with him his 
young wife, Elizabeth Emory Hurd, daughter of Hon. Roswell 
Stevens, of Pomfret, Conn. Mrs. Banister is still remembered 



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in Hinsdale with loving admiration as one of the most brilliant 
and admirable women who have ever filled the office of pastor's 
wife in this church. Mr. Banister was a man of fine personal 
appearance, of very pleasing manners and address, and endowed 
with social gifts which qualified him well for a pastor's work, 
and made him a welcome visitor in the homes of his people. 
His gifts and excellencies, however, were rather of the pastor 
than of the preacher, and, perhaps, coming after the strong 
man who had filled his pulpit for so many years, he did not 
find it easy to satisfy the expectations of his people. His pas- 
torate here continued for four years. He was dismissed April 
29, 1846. 

After leaving Hinsdale, Mr. Banister filled short pastorates 
at Carlisle, Mass., Smyrna, N. Y., and Lyndon, Yt. He was 
installed over the First church, Ware, Mass., his last pastoral 
charge, May 23, 1855, and was dismissed June 1, 1-857. He 
died suddenly at Newton, Mass., October 5, 1861. 

Mr. Banister was three times married and had five children, 
some or all of whom are still living. 




REV. P. K. CLARK. 



Rev. Perkins Kirkland Clark was a man of marked ability 
and high scholarship, and his memory is still green throughout 
a wide region of Western Massachusetts. I can speak of him 
with the interest of personal knowledge, as he died my prede- 
cessor in the pastorate of the Congregational church at Charle- 
mont. 

Mr. Clark was born at Westfield, Massachusetts, December 
10, 1811, but his father belonged to that famous circle of West- 
hampton Clarks, from which was sent forth so large and so able 
a company of ministers of the Word ; among them Dr. Dorus 
Clark, so long connected with the Puritan Recorder, and who 
is not likely to be soon forgotten by the Congregational churches 
of Massachusetts. These Westhampton Clarks cannot be better 
characterized than by the fact that they established among 
themselves a neighborhood prayer meeting, which endured for 
a hundred and fifty years. Of this race Perkins Kirkland 
Clark was a true and thoroughbred son. He graduated at Yale 
College in 1838, spent one year at Andover, a year and a half 



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teaching at Savannah, Georgia, and was then called to a tutor- 
ship in Yale College. There he remained four years, improv- 
ing the opportunity to complete his theological course. At the 
close of his tutorship he was married to Miss Hannah G. Avery 
of Springfield, who still survives him. He spent one year 
teaching in the Normal school at Westfield, when he was called 
to the united pastorate of the church at Chester Factories, now 
Chester, and Chester Tillage, now Huntington. He minis- 
tered to both churches for three years, and to the church in 
Huntington alone for three years longer, when he was called to 
the pastorate of this church, over which he was installed June 
15, 1852. His ministry here, in co-operation with that prince 
of Christian teachers, Prof. I. N. Lincoln, was exceedingly 
fruitful. In the year 1853, thirty-seven persons were received 
into the church on profession of their faith. Through all the 
years of his ministry Mr. Clark was in very feeble health. 
This was especiall}* true of him during his residence here. It 
would seem that he could hardly have maintained himself un- 
der the burden of his pastoral work without the faithful assist- 
ance of his excellent wife. 

He remained here four years, and was dismissed October 22, 
1855. After this he filled a pastorate of ten years at South 
Deerfield, and of six years at Mittineague, when, already upon 
the brink of the grave, he accepted a call to the Congregational 
church at Charlemont. He was the victim of an aggravated 
form of dyspepsia, which almost wholly prevented the nour- 
ishment of his system, and he died of sheer exhaustion and 
starvation January 4, 1872. His iron will held him up to the 
very last, and some of the last sermons which he preached are 
still remembered in Charlemont for their fervor and force. 

Mr. Clark had four children, three of whom are now living: 
Edward Perkins Clark, now on the editorial staff of the New 
York Evening Post, Prof. Emma Kirkland Clark, of Elmira 
Female College, and Martha, wife of Kev. J. O. Rankin, of 
Peekskill, New York. 




REV. EPHRAIM FLINT, D. D. 

REV. EPHRAIM FLINT, D. D. 



BY WILLIAM J. BARTLETT, OF LEE. 



Fathers and mothers in Israel, brethren, sisters and friends! 

We stand to-day upon the century's mount of vision, but we 
cannot look beyond (as Moses saw the promised land from Pis- 
gah's top) ; we can only take a retrospective view of the way 
through which our Father has led us. 

As I look back over seven decades of the last century, and 
call to mind the hosts of men of all shades of temperament and 
demeanor, of belief and unbelief, with whom I have passed an 
intensely active life, I call it one of my chief felicities, that I 
was privileged with an intimate and personal companionship 
with him, who was for fifteen years the beloved pastor-of those 
of you who worshipped upon this historic hill of Zion. Those 



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of you who possess that glowing and complete memorial of 
Dr. Flint, presented to every family in this parish soon after 
his decease, will hardly expect me to add any thing of interest 
thereto, since I must necessarily traverse the same ground. 

Please let me remind you that, while others all around the 
world may be thinking of our gathering here to-day, there is 
one that I am sure is with us in thought and sympathy and 
deepest interest. I refer to Mrs. Flint, the beloved com- 
panion of and faithful co-worker with your late pastor, during 
his ministry among you. Remember her in your prayers ! 

I met Mr. Flint first at the railway station in Lee, in the 
summer of 1856, when he came to take charge of our High 
school, and remember well the quiet reserve of manner with 
which he returned my greeting. Though slightly disappoint- 
ing at first, 1 soon learned that it was habitual, and totally de- 
void of any assumption of superiority or pride, or even cold- 
ness and want of feeling. 

It was an index that he carried continually with him a con- 
scious sense of his personal relations to God, and his responsi- 
bility to demonstrate in each and every vocation to which, 
under the leadership of the Holy Spirit he might be called 
the highest type of Christian living. 

In all my long and intimate relations with him, I cannot re- 
call a single instance where he forgot his duty, his right, or his 
privilege to be a Christian gentleman. 

Of his work among us as a teacher, I can only speak from 
observation, and the expressed testimony of his pupils. From 
these sources I learn that he carried into his teaching an en- 
thusiastic love for the labor, together with that thoroughness 
of research so characteristic of him in all that he undertook. 

He followed no lazy routine along the line of thread-bare 
truths, but delved indefatigably into the depths of things to be 
taught, particularly into the more abstruse mathematics. He 
seemed to revel there. One of his brightest pupils says he 



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never left on their hands any problem within their course of 
study, until it was as luminous to them as to himself. 

While discharging with singular fidelity his trust as a secular 
teacher, he never lost sight of the other and higher moral needs 
of his beloved pupils, and so great was his success in both de- 
partments of labor, that our old Academy Hill might properly, 
at that time, have been designated both as the Hill of Science 
and the Hill of Zion. 

His whole life of six years among us, civil, social and relig- 
ious, was of that well-rounded and symmetrical type that always 
carries with it a power for good : a power that silences the 
words of gainsaying and cavil. 

During that time, with others of lis like minded who were 
resident there, he assisted in the establishment of a young peo- 
ple's prayer meeting, which soon took the place of the week- 
day afternoon church meeting, and which continues to this day 
as the regular mid-week prayer meeting of the church, now so 
old as to be immemorial to the majority of our residents. 

Our friend's character was the legitimate development of 
what I call the five points of practical Calvinism, which he had 
settled irrevocably long before he came to Lee. They were, 

1st. The Bible ; the Word of God, to be believed and studied 
and obeyed. 

2d. Prayer ; in its highest sense, communion with our Heav- 
enly Father. 

3d. The Sabbath; an actively holy day, absolutely needed 
for man's spiritual uplift. 

4th. Giving; a cheerful return to God, according to that 
which he had received. 

5th. Temperance; total abstinence in its most rigid per- 
sonal application. 

It was a sad and tearful day when, in 1862, he left us to ac- 
cept a more important call to teach the High school at Lynn. 
That call came to him so unexpectedly, and backed by such 



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powerful appeals, that he felt as though it was the call of God, 
and obeyed it as such. 

I made him a short visit, with my wife, when there in June, 
1863, and found him just as vitally interested and enthusiastic 
in school, Sabbath school, and general church work as had 
been his constant habit while in Lee. 

But the ultimate goal of his life-long desire was not yet 
reached. From the time when, at thirteen years of age, he 
heard the voice of the Spirit saying to him in more urgent 
tones than heretofore, " This is the way, walk ye in it," and 
his heart had responded with complete consecration, "Here am 
I, send me," he had set his face toward the ministry of the 
cross. Hence, in 1865, he left Lynn and entered Andover 
Theological Seminary. It was there that another specific call 
from the Holy Spirit which had been in the Divine mind for 
years, so occult as to be beneath his own consciousness, came 
to him so imperatively and impressively as to be unmistakable. 
This he hailed with joy. 

Just at that time, on board a vessel in the port of Boston, 
lay a lone boy, a poor "stowaway" who had come from the 
Orient, led by the same Spirit, seeking celestial light. In the 
spirit of the convicted French infidel who cried out in agony, 
"O God, if there be a God, save my soul if I have a soul!" so 
this sad waif, waiting and watching wearily day by day to 
know what would become of him, cried out in this precise 
language, "O God, if thou have eyes, please look on me, O 
God, if thou have ears, please hear for me — I want to learn to 
read the Bible." 

The Holy Spirit never makes mistakes ! It is easy to trace 
the connection now, with the request made bj Mr. Flint 
twenty-five years before, to the gracious Spirit, "Here am I, 
send me," and its complete answer in the pleadings of Neesima 
for spiritual light. God led this thirsty soul to just the place 
He had prepared for it. It came under the care of one whose 
spiritual discernment was so keen as to see at once his need, 



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and whose whole soul went out in earnest desire to supply the 
want. 

This is one of those special conjunctions more wonderful 
than those in the natural world, and more common probably 
in the spiritual world, than we are wont to think. They have 
come to many thus consecrated souls ! Possibly to every one ! 

The first verse of scripture that Mr. Flint taught Neesima 
was John 3 : 16, and it opened up the way for him into the 
" Holy of Holies." 

In after life, Neesima distinctly stated that he was more in- 
debted to Mr. Flint for his Christian teaching than to any 
other living man. It is hard to leave this chapter of Mr. 
Flint's history with this bare mention, but since I am under 
bonds to the inexorable time limit of fifteen minutes, prescribed 
for me on this occasion, I must do so. 

Mr. Flint's return to Berkshire and ordination on September 
19, 1867, was hailed with delight by all his Lee friends. It 
seemed good to have a man with such scholarly and spiritual 
acquirements settle again within our borders. Though not a 
member of the ordaining council, I was present on the occa- 
sion, and was not at all surprised to hear his clear and sharp 
cut answers to the questions propounded to him, revealing his 
positive convictions of the vital truths of our evangelical faith. 
He had no negations or doubts to parade, but held to the faith 
so happily illustrated by the many "I know" declarations of 
St. Paul. 

I well remember his request that I should preach for him 
when he was ill, in July, 1869, and the trepidation with which 
I faced that especially intelligent and cultivated audience to 
which I was to speak in his place. I hardly knew whether to 
censure him for his temerity in taking the risk, or thank him 
for paying me so high a compliment. That he sought my ad- 
vice more than once in the perplexities of life and followed it, 
is, however, a sufficient compliment to me. 

Pardon a moment's digression, dear friends, if I pause here 



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just to say that I thank you profoundly for your forbearance 
and patience with me on that occasion, as well as on more than 
thirty subsequent ones during Mr. Flint's residence among you. 
The treatment (as physicians say) was heroic, but (with one or 
two exceptions) you bore it bravely ! You could hardly have 
given any stronger proof of your love and loyalty to your pas- 
tor than this affords. 

It is not at all strange that one with a constitution not espe- 
cially robust, who had been under such severe mental tension 
for over twenty-five years, should have needed occasional as- 
sistance, for he could almost say, "The zeal of Thine house 
hath eaten me up." It was so much my province to preach 
for him that 1 seldom heard him. The last sermon that I as- 
sociate with him was on the text, " The glorious gospel of the 
blessed God," a theme that filled his soul. 

As far as I had opportunity to judge of his sermons, they 
were logical, perspicuous and spiritual— the highest style of 
preaching. 

It would be doing violence to the memory of my beloved 
friend to represent him as perfect. His careful introspection 
of his inner life, however, "clothed him with humility." Still, 
"by the grace of God" he followed closely in the footstej>s of 
that "guileless Israelite" whom Christ loved. He preached 
the gospel in no perfunctory spirit, nor from mercenary motives, 
but because he was constrained thereto, as was the great apostle 
when he said, "woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel." 

How much he loved you ; how much he longed for your 
growth in grace and the salvation of precious souls among you, 
you will never know till in the open vision of future revela- 
tion. But I do certainly know that his burden for souls in- 
creased with each advancing year, and with such intensity, 
that it became a consuming fire. 

In closing, I will confide to you a secret or two. Upon Mr. 
Flint's return from his last vacation he said, "I am going to 
put my soul into my work as I never have before." So in- 



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tensely did he redeem his pledge, that a Christian gentleman 
who chanced to hear him not long before his decease, said, as 
he came from the church, " Such preaching places Hinsdale 
people under tremendous obligation, and I should say some- 
thing decided is going to happen here ; either there will be a 
great revival, or Dr. Flint is going to die." An unconscious 
prophecy ! 

Thus towering above every other purpose in his service for 
the Master, was the saving of souls. It was the old cry of 
John Knox, "Give me Scotland or I die!" So he said, give 
me souls or I die. That desire has already been fulfilled. They 
have already, and will hereafter come from Lee and Lynn, 
from Japan and Hinsdale, and sit down with him at the "mar- 
riage supper of the Lamb." Who can doubt that he has joined 
the company of that prophetic throng who shall shine " as the 
stars forever and ever." 

Ah, friends! In the light of our theme, how paltry and in- 
significant are all those ambitions and strivings for worldly 
fame and fortune, compared with the one divine purpose 
which moved your beloved pastor through every obstacle 
straight to the gate of Celestial City that opened to him on 
your own Majple hill. 

And how strongly it certifies the eternal outreach of those 
spiritual possibilities within the grasp of every child of God. 

Oh, people of the living God! When the time shall come, 
that not only the ministry, but all of God's children shall be 
actuated by the same burning zeal for souls, then shall the 
Church shine forth "fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and 
terrible as an army with banners." 




REV. EDWARD TAYLOR, D. D. 



ADDRESS. 



BY KEY. EDWARD TAYLOR, D. D., OF BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 



'J 



With Divine beauty this century plant of God blossoms here 
to-day. The senior of the two surviving ex-pastors of this 
dear church, after many long years of absence, I have returned 
to unite with you in loving commemoration of its existence for 
one hundred years! With gratitude we note that this honored 
mother has age without decrepitude, that time has scored its 
tally upon her venerable form with a gentle hand, and that the 
years have garlanded her with purity and grace. 

Sacred as is this occasion to you all, it is peculiarly so to me 
from the fact that in this very month of August, forty -nine 



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years ago, I here began my ministerial career. Some ex- 
periences are for the once only; the events may be repeated, 
but there will be no repetition of the peculiar feelings attend- 
ing the first. The first ride upon a locomotive brings thrills 
and throbs incapable of renewal. Here were beginnings of 
the important events in both my public and household life. 
At the outset neither side anticipated a permanent relation, 
but our hearts were gradually drawn together and in a few 
weeks 1 received a call to the pastorate, the more surprising 
that there had been in the parish a chronic division. At that 
call I still wonder. The congregation was composed of sturdy 
thinkers, of artesian characters, of people broad both in the 
brain and in the breast. And I am perhaps not quite in such 
an unfortunate condition as my brother in ebony, whose dea- 
con, having been asked why his pastor left the church, replied, 
" We sent him his resignation, because his head was bald in- 
side." My head was not quite " bald inside," perhaps, yet I 
was young, boyish, having the usual academic preparation, but 
absolutely without experience, and not over-stocked with 
gumption and piety. The parish took a great risk, but He 
"Who builds the blind bird's nest," was all the more tender of 
His flock. As for me, I accepted the trust and have ever been 
glad. God looked out for us all, guiding my apprentice hand 
to His glory and graciously inclining the congregation to turn 
a patient and charitable side to my many defects. Their con- 
siderate regard has followed me, in grateful memories, to this 
day as a sweet psalm. 

Because the meeting house was being internally transfigured, 
our services were held in Emmons' hall, which was packed with 
people every time. Knowing my inability to do smart things, 
I followed the fixed purpose to do no long things, with the 
natural result that, being dismissed before they had time to 
get very weary, folks came again. My ordination and installa- 
tion occurred February 3, 1847, having been deferred until the 
completion of our temple renewal. The day was one of almost 



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unparalleled rain and wind, jet the liouse was thronged. At 
the dedication in the forenoon Dr. Todd preached ; at the or- 
dination and installation in the afternoon the sermon was by 
Rev. Ralph Smith of Lee. Father Hawley offered the prayer, 
and, with his hands, were placed upon my head those of Mr. 
Smith and Rev. Joseph Knight of Peru, my nearest neighbor 
and my wise counselor and faithful friend. Others who par- 
ticipated were Messrs. Clarke of Middlefield, Norwood of 
Washington, Hall of Dalton and Entler of Windsor. Time's 
inaudible file works ceaselessly, and all these are beyond the 
scope of mortal vision. The meeting, houses were all on the 
Flat, ours on its crown. Hinsdale had a church going popula- 
tion and our sheds were generally insufficient for the convey- 
ances ; the second preaching was at one o'clock, and averaged 
a larger attendance than in the morning, and, at its close, the 
crowd of home goers on foot and in wagons was by far the 
most in spiring spectacle of the week. The galleries were well 
filled. After an exchange with Brother Clark of Richmond, 
he expressed much surprise at the number of young men and 
boys in just their gallery. "Why, I actually counted seventy- 
two!" And that was no more than ordinary. Merely from the 
love of it, I at once began to visit all the schools, leaving mot- 
toes, such as, "What you do, do well," "Vim," "Think," etc. 
These visits brought me into intimate relations with the young 
folks of the entire town and proved fruitful of spiritual as w r ell 
as secular good. The town soon made me chairman of its 
school committee, associating me with excellent men, of whom 
I served longest with my much esteemed friends, Charles J. 
Kittredge and Lysander M. Francis. 

During this period the Academy was built by private sub- 
scription. At its opening the golden mouthed Dr. Sprague of 
Albany, gave the principal address. This was followed by 
several short talks, in one of which Lieutenant Governor 
Plunkett of Adams, expressed a hope that the institution would 
train its students to be common, sense rather than learned. He 



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defined common sense to be the "knack of doing things." That 
thought proved germinal with me, as it has to multitudes to 
whom I have conveyed it, and to the school. 

The first marriage at which I ever officiated was that of Mr. 
Cyril Spring to widow Anna Post; it was in Mr. Noadiah Em- 
mons' tenant house on the Flat. When Mr. Spring came from 
his farm just beyond the Washington town line, it w r as not with 
the expectation of marriage that day, but his need of a house- 
keeper was urgent and the marriage was consummated. Some 
red tape preliminaries were lacking, but the knot held. The 
first baptism w r as of Isabelle Augusta Emmons, then a child ; 
and in connection I baptized children of Mr. and Mrs. John 
Putnam and Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Parish. This was at prepar- 
atory lecture; on the following Sabbath I first administered the 
Lord's supper, at which Milo Wentworth and Mr. and Mrs. 
Otis Jones were received into the church, all on confession. 
Mr. Jones and his children were baptized. The first person 
whose death I witnessed was Henry Hinsdale. Only three 
weeks previously he called on me after his return from Cin- 
cinnati, where fever had brought him to death's door, and to 
my saying that I had never seen one die, he replied, " In such 
a large parish as this, you will not long say that." I hear now 
the rap on the window by Deacon William Hinsdale, which 
summoned me in the night to Henry's bedside. Then and 
there I first met death. At my coming the roll of the church 
contained one hundred and twenty-five names. Some of its 
members w r ere absent, the majority were on the evening slope 
of life, and in the ranks was not one unmarried young man. 
At the Lord's supper the assembly was numerous, but the 
communicants were relatively and painfully few. There had 
been no special religious interest for many years. In addition 
to the ordinary means of grace, we had a mid-week school house 
meeting, in routine. On a given da}', preceded by a day of 
fasting and prayer, the brethren religiously visited all the. fam- 
ilies, going uncouples. My part that day was to speak in the 



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Academy and in the mills, whose wheels were stopped for the 
hour and whose operatives were gathered for the solemn pur- 
pose. During the autumn and winter I had been favored with 
a home in the kind family of Henry Putnam, on the West hill. 
In Marcli Dr. Abel Kittredge admitted me to the privileges of 
his equally hospitable home. Here were called together every 
Monday evening the young people, and the boundaries of my 
spacious room were soon too limited for the lovely group. 
Ignorance is the mother of audacity. I ventured to ask mar- 
ried men who were not Christians to meet at my room to talk 
together upon religion as they did upon secular topics elsewhere. 
Our Saviour mercifully accepted the prayerful intent, and on 
the first Friday evening seven such men were divinely drawn 
to the place. At the close one of them followed me in prayer. 
After that the number increased to twenty-five. As one result 
seventeen family altars were erected. We also had weekly in- 
quiry meetings, much frequented. I had, too, a "helping 
hour," when those who desired to be Christians came singly 
and were taught the how of it. The Holy Ghost has used me 
for hand-picking rather than tree-shaking, and the hour has 
proved valuable in all my ministry for bringing people to an 
intelligent, saving decision. Thus, all by ourselves, there was 
a healthy, general spiritual interest. 

Upon the assurance of a medical expert that continued resi- 
dence in this bracing climate would be fatal to my wife, my 
pastorate here ended, November 3, 1850. Following a sermon, 
whose tearful text syllabled our sorrow,- Jer. 4:19 — "lam 
pained at my very heart," we parted at the Sacramental table. 
For the first time, the church roll that day contained two 
hundred and one names. This is to me an occasion of both 
gladness and sadness; of sadness, because I am a stranger to 
most who are here, because it is so lonely. To find what earth 
holds of my own dear flock I must resort to " God's Acre " on 
yonder holy hill. Of gladness, because, though its personali- 
ties change, the beloved church continues "fair as the moon 



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and clear as the sun," its faithful pastor abides, and Christ's 
glorious kingdom is by both advanced. Why not another cen- 
tury? Let us pour oil upon the pillar, vitalizing commemora- 
tion with a consecration, not fractional but integral. With 
bared brow and foot, let us be an "Here am I" to the "Great 
I Am." Let the ".Rock of Ages" be bedded into our being 
and the blood of the atonement beat in our arteries; let us be 
nerved with Bible affirmatives; let the pedigree be of Christly 
grace, which is better than any pedigree of imperial blood, and 
the brow of this church will be diademed with immortality. 




REV. KINSLEY TWINING, D. D., L. H. D- 



ADDRESS. 



BY REV. KINSLEY TWINING, D. D., L. H. D., OF MORRISTOWN, N. J. 
LITERARY EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT, NEW YORK. 



My dear brethren and friends: 

If I had addressed the audience which I see before me now 
when I first stood in this pulpit, I should have had to address 
them as brethren and fathers. I fear I cannot do that now. 
That is no longer the relation between us, and yet as I look 
back to the time when I first came here, it seems right before 
me. It does not seem one year away — no, not one day. All 
these long years have passed so swiftly. Those were the sweet 



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summer days of life when I first came here, each one as long 
as twenty days are now. 

1 noticed that my brother who preceded me was ordained 
here in August; so was I. He was ordained, I believe, on the 
21st; I was ordained here on the 26th of August. It was his 
first pastorate ; so it was mine. He says that yon had a great 
deal to bear with in his work, that he made a great many mis- 
takes; I suppose I did. At any rate if any one asks me 
whether I did or not, I shall have to reply to him as, according 
to the story, Daniel Webster replied to the medium w r ho was 
consulting him as to whether he had made any mistakes in his 
political career. " Well," said he, u I did not make any in my 
fourth of March speech ; that was all right, but I did make a 
few mistakes in my dictionary." Now I am afraid I shall 
have to admit that although in the general run of the ministry, 
I did my work with good intention and good heart, loving the 
people and loving the Master, yet I am afraid that in my dic- 
tionary I made a good many mistakes. 

As I stand here now, I suppose that the great thing that 
comes before me is the men and the women who were here 
and founded this church, who worked in it and worked around 
it. I have often said that I never knew a more impressive 
congregation than that which was gathered here, row on row, 
in those times; the church was full; the galleries were full; 
there were young men and women and they were grandly de- 
voted, I think, to the work that they had to do. I remember 
the men now gone ; I remember the ministry of the county, 
and it seems to me that I ought to refer to some of the names 
that have not been mentioned to-day. For instance, there was 
that noble, beautiful man of God, Dr. Humphrey, President 
Humphrey of Pittsfield. I remember this of him as showing 
the broad humanity of the man. Once during the years I was 
here there occurred one of those brutal prize fights which have 
since unhappily become common. It was the fight between 
the American Ilenaii and the Englishman Savers. The public 



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were excited and roused about it, especially the brutal exhibi- 
tion of cruelty and insensibility that went with it. Yet there 
was something in it that roused the national feeling of the 
American people and they sided with their man. The last man 
in this world that I should have picked out to have the slightest 
sympathy with things of that nature was that gentle, lovely, 
refined, beautiful spirit, Dr. Humphrey, but I recollect at the 
meeting of the Association in Dalton, Dr. Humphrey said that 
although he repudiated the whole thing and agreed with the 
others that it was brutal, still he could not help being drawn 
on by his feelings as a man and as an American to sympathize 
with the American champion in this case. Such was the 
strength of the human side of that man's character, beautiful 
spirit that he was. 

Then there stood Dr. Todd. Dr. Todd was a phenomenal 
man. I don't suppose that the majority of the persons here to- 
day ever knew him ; perhaps they never saw him. Dr. Todd 
was a strong-featured man. He represented the old type of 
force — strong, rugged, influential, and his influence penetrated 
every one of these parishes and gave steadiness and strength to 
them. He was an immensely entertaining man in the pulpit 
and yet there was a certain seriousness about him in all that he 
said. It was not only that he made people laugh or that he 
knew how to act out what he had to say, but along with it all 
he infused the elements of sense and of sobriety into what he 
had to say, and he seized people with a strong grip. Old Dr. 
Pond, the head of the Theological Seminary at Brunswick, 
Maine, used to say, as I am reminded by seeing in the audience 
a gentleman who told me the story, — Dr. Pond used to say to 
his pupils: "Young men, cultivate prongs, so that when you 
speak, what you have got to say won't slip off, but will grip 
people, take hold of them, hold on to them." That is what Dr. 
Todd did. He cultivated prongs and his influence went all 
through the country everywhere. It was felt here, a mighty 
cohesive, attracting influence, and was so way up on the moun- 



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tain top at Windsor, Washington, everywhere. And yet Dr. 
Todd was a great man for an emergency, and I am tempted at 
this moment to tell a story of one of his performances in New 
York. It was in the midst of a great temperance agitation in 
the State of New York and a meeting had been called in the 
old Tabernacle. A number of very leading men had been ad- 
vertised to speak, but nn fortunately they were detained. Well, 
the managers of the meeting did what they always do on such 
an occasion, they brought forward their lesser lights. The 
audience began to run away and it looked as if the whole thing 
would fall through, when, right in the midst of that discour- 
aging condition of things, some one came up to the President 
and said, " There is John Todd down there in the meeting and 
I'll venture if you will bring him up here, he will fill this house 
up again, and make a success of the meeting." So Dr. Todd 
came up to the platform. Pie buttoned up his coat and stood 
there and bent out his arms akimbo, in a way very characteristic 
with him, and thundered out in the midst of the confusion in 
a voice that sounded and resounded through the hall : " Way 
down in that beautiful valley — ." The people stopped a little 
and looked around to see what had happened ; there w r as a pause 
for a moment which Dr. Todd took advantage of, and then 
added in the same tone, " Where I got my w T ife — ." The re- 
treating crowd turned and began to push back a little, when 
the Doctor took advantage of the next pause to raise his arm 
and shout at the top of his voice "God bless her." That 
brought the crowd back with a rush. In the first silence, the 
Doctor went on: "And 1 don't mean any disrespect to any of 
the refined and cultivated ladies of this audience when I say 
that she was prettier than any of them." Well, that ended 
the business. The hall was filled and the address was a great 
success. Now that was Dr. John Todd. He possessed that 
kind of power and along with it he possessed a great deal of 
pathos, a great deal of imaginative power and a great deal of 
personal power. 



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And how shall 1 speak of the greatest of them all, the Presi- 
dent of Williams College, Dr. Hopkins, whose influence went 
right through the county, a sweet, deep, refreshing, fertilizing 
stream, encouraging every young pastor, strengthening every 
weak pastor, building up the church everywhere, a great and 
mighty force for good ? 

Yes, and there were lesser men, other men whose influence 
was great and good in the county, who ought not to be for- 
gotten. There was John Tatlock, Professor Tatlock, who 
often preached here. There was that blessed man, that noble 
teacher, Professor Lincoln ; and among them other pastors in 
the county. They all were men who did a great and good 
work here. If the churches have achieved nothing more, they 
have clone enough for Berkshire in calling these men into the 
county; in placing them here and sustaining them here, as ex- 
amples of power and influence and fruitfnlness, to show the 
world what a Christian training can do for a man. 

I have had occasion many times in my life to observe the 
influence of the theological training and teaching which men 
have received, on their type of character. I was settled once 
in Providence and had in my church a large company of men 
who were trained under the preaching and tuition of Dr. Fin- 
ney. Now the mark of Dr. Finney was strong on them, but it 
was not half as strong as the mark of the theology that Dr. 
Finney preached. And this was because in that theology he 
gave them a sound philosophy of life. 

Now, my friends, I want to say here that the best thing you 
can do for a man is to give him a philosophy of life, to lay 
dowm for him a method of life, to show him what the objects 
of life are and what things are worth living for, and how to at- 
tain them and how to reach them. That is what Mr. Ilawley 
did for this parish. When I came here, the working men and 
the working women here were pupils of Mr. Hawley. Now I 
don't care one cent whether his theology makes a cold chill run 
down your back or not, if that theology built up character, if 



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it made men, men; if it made women, women; if it fitted them 
to bear the burdens of life ; if it fitted them to confront the 
great world and to win the victory which the apostle says is the 
one great victory which man can win in the world, the victory 
of faith — if it does this what does all this talk amount to? This 
is what that good man did. That good man trained men. He 
trained them to be honest when they were tempted to be dis- 
honest; he trained them to tell the truth when the world was 
whispering to them to cut it down a little; he trained them to 
bear with patience the great burdens of life ; to front the world 
and to meet death, and at last to die prepared for the great 
demands and responsibilities of the world to come — in short, he 
gave them a good philosophy of life and built on it the great- 
est of all constructions, a solid character. 

Now, dear friends, if another theology is coming that can do 
that thing any better, then God be thanked fur it; but if we 
only have a theology that sounds pleasant and sweet to men's 
ears, then let us fight shy of it. Let us ask the question, what 
is it going to do for us, for these young men and women i 
What are these churches going to be? Are they going to be- 
come nurseries of heroic piety or sentimental theatres where 
people will be delighted and have the way of life gilded with 
sentimentalities and fripperies and nothings? Let us go back 
to the theology that will make men, men. 

I want to say some things about this parish. Pardon me, 
then, for putting it in a little more personal form. When I 
came to this parish I was a y T oung man making my first essays, 
taking my first steps, and it was just after the great revivals 
of '57 and '58. Now those of you who have marked the re- 
ligious history of the churches, know that with '57 and '58 and 
their wave of religious emotion and revival, there came a cer- 
tain change in the religious life of the whole community. The 
churches from that time have been organized a little differently. 
Organization in a measure, has taken the place of inner: disci- 
pline. Now let us not say a word against organization. Let 



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us oot find any fault with enterprise. Let us not criticise in 
any way this active type of Christianity. Nevertheless we 
want to recognize the fact that it has made a mighty difference 
in our churches. At the time when I came to. this church, that 
great wave of religious feeling, of revivalistic influence which 
resulted in bringing in this new era into the church, was just 
in a measure dying out in the centres. It was just coming 
here and in a measure this community as yet, was unaffected 
by it. The changes of commerce had, however, been so great, 
that they had brought this large structure down from the top of 
yon hill, in the midst of a great deal of opposition, and planted 
it here. The town center had moved and that had been the 
result of the changed conditions of life, of industry, and of 
trade, and of population. They found a community here 
which at that time w T as living on the old basis. The very first 
evening after I came here, I walked along the street and went 
by the post office and saw there in one of those rooms a man 
who was selling a new kind of light. The lamp was nothing 
more than this now perfectly familiar ordinary flat wick kero- 
sene burner, but it was a thing I had never seen yet; at that 
time we had had no kerosene. That wonderful contribution to 
the comfort of our homes had not yet been made, and the first 
one that I ever saw, I saw down there. It didn't occur to me 
that it was going to make a great change in the world or in so- 
ciety and in the life of families and in the work that we were 
going to do here in this town, but it did make a tremendous 
difference. That little lamp lengthened out the working day, 
the social day in all these homes and houses, and it made a tre- 
mendous difference in the w r ay our meetings w T ere conducted. 
The meetings had been conducted before by the light of the 
dip candle. I recollect the prayer meetings that we used to 
hold around in different parts of the town. I don't quite like 
to hear the Flat called Maple street; I do not quite like to 
hear what we knew by one name now called by another. I 
remember there was a little red school house, which I under- 



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stand has disappeared from the face of the earth, where we 
used to have prayer meetings. Mr. Francis, who is here, will 
remember those meetings very, well, and other people will re- 
member those meetings, and they will remember that the peo- 
ple who came to them brought their own lights, — their dip 
candles to make the lights. There was a great deal of spiritual 
fervor and spiritual profit and delight in those meetings. Un- 
der the old system we had a good deal of trouble in lighting 
our rooms, but when these new lamps came in, the rooms were 
lighted easily and the evening meetings took the place of the 
afternoon meetings. 

I could go on and talk in this way all the afternoon, but 
there are others whom we want to hear and I must stop. I 
want to express my great delight at being here ; my pleasure 
that it has furnished material for thought, food that you ought 
to live on, and that from this day you should gird up your 
loins and go forward in the strength of the past. And I feel 
that while you have had noble men and women here in the 
past, you can raise the same here now. In the list of pastors 
that you have had, one of the latest on the list was perhaps the 
most saintly of any. I refer to Dr. Flint. Let us not forget 
then that Christianity as we have it now may produce its 
saintly characters and that God by His grace is producing them 
now in our churches and homes as He did in the generations 
to which we arc looking back to-day. 



ADDRESS. 



Home again ! And all the way I have dreamed of this glad 
anniversary. What a joy to meet my dear young pastor — 
always young to me — of almost fifty years agone. I have won- 
dered if he would still remember me as one of his boys. My 
other pastor, young, too, of my college years. Other dear pas- 
tors have gone to a sunnier land. We shall meet them by and 
by in a better trysting place. And I am glad to be here in 
this church. Next to China, which holds my heart, I love this 
church. Here I was born. Here I was given to the Lord in 
baptism. Here I was born a second time, a little lad of ten. 
Here I was received to the Christian family. In this church 
hands of blessing were laid on my head, and I was sent forth, 
a glad hearted missionary, to my life work. And now after a 
third term of hard and happy service I come to meet you dear 
friends once more. And I bring to you a greeting, as I was 
bidden, from your Chinese brothers and sisters over the sea. 
God bless you all. 

What do I remember? I remember when a very little boy 
being penned up in one of the old box pews, the top of which 
was much higher than my head. Was it Parson Hawley that 
sprinkled the baby's head with holy water? I do not remember 
him. But I remember Mr. Banister. As I recall him he was 
tall, good-looking, rather quiet and a gentleman. That is all 
I remember. And then came my dear, dear pastor, the pastor 
of my childhood. How I used to follow his face, such a sweet, 
boyish, happy, loving face, that had in it a benediction for a 
child. And he had such hearty and such winsome ways. Dear 
Mr. Taylor, I remember his ordination. A boy of ten I sat in 



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the church on the hill through it all. As for the words spoken 
I only remember the allusion by one of the solemn ministers to 
the spectacles, and the great satisfaction of the preacher that 
the church had prepared a green curtain in the rear of the pul- 
pit ! It would be " so restful to the eyes of your pastor." 

The following winter came the great revival which swept 
through the town, taking in old men and little children and 
heads of families. Meetings everywhere, and a spiritual influ- 
ence filled the air. What an impression it made on me, then 
a little child, and how I have longed in these after years to be 
engaged in just such work, a desire partially gratified, but 
chiefly in China. 

I remember a funeral of an old man, much loved by Mr. 
Taylor, and how, as he entered the church walking up the 
aisle in front of the coffin, the pastor in a loud, clear voice re- 
peated, " I am the resurrection and the life ; he that believeth 
in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." I remember, 
oh ! how well the pastor's words of triumph, and the pastor's 
tears. Since the good Doctor left us, he chanced to come once 
again, — was it a chance? — just in time to be present at my 
grandfather's funeral, an old man of ninety-seven. The only 
preacher then in town, a good Methodist brother, had been 
asked to conduct the services. I think they had already com- 
menced when Dr. Taylor appeared. When the other preacher 
had finished his solemn remarks, Dr. Taylor arose, and in a 
clear, ringing voice began, U J am glad to be here. I always 
wanted to be at Father Washburn 's funeral" and went on in 
a glad strain, turning our eyes upward and setting the service 
to music. And ever since I have understood how death to the 
Christian is the crowning of life, the portal through which he 
enters into a new, and strong, and blessed, and everlasting life. 

To the Rev. P. K. Clark, of blessed memory, many of as 
owe a debt for illuminating the Catechism, which he did in a 
-<rics of weekly meetings for the young people. Until th-en I 
did not know that I could be a Calvinist. and had never dared 



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to knock at the church door. For eight years, at each sacra- 
mental season, I had looked down from the gallery with great 
longing. 

Since his time, I have received but little shepherding at 
home, having been in college or seminary, or in the land where 
our heads point toward the nadir now anearing forty years. 

But I cannot forget Dr. Twining, the pastor of my college 
days. What a joy it was to receive a welcome to his study on 
my home-coming, and listen to his conversations as he allowed 
his mind to roam for me anywhither. How frank and true 
and fearless and kindly sympathetic he was, a valued friend in 
those days. 

How greatly blessed has this church been in its pastors down 
to our beloved pastor, who now shepherds the flock with such 
loving faithfulness and winning power. 

One other revival I well remember, — was it in '52, '53? — 
when many young people especially turned their feet toward 
the better country. There were three of us all in a single 
room, and one night it was suggested that we all lead in prayer. 
One of the prayers began thus: "O, Lord, we are all sinners." 
After a long pause he said, " I am done." But that night, in 
the small hours, he fought out the battle, and ever since my 
heart has carried a thanksgiving psalm for my brother's victory. 

Some of the members of this church made a lasting impres- 
sion on me. First among them was Deacon Nash. To me he 
seemed to have a solemn face, solemn manner and solemn 
speech, and it made me afraid to be a Christian. I was not 
prepared for a gloomy life. But fortunately I heard him in a 
lighter mood, and learned that he was a very happy man. I 
knew that, like Barnabas, he was a good man. 

Then there was Deacon Pitt. Somewhere in the seventies 
he gave up the use of tobacco. I saw T even then that it cost a 
struggle and revealed character. 

And there was our grandfather who was an octogenarian 
when the grace of God wrought effectually in him. What a 



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miracle of grace to take a moral man of eighty, and reveal to 
him his sin and need of salvation. But I only knew how good 
he was, how he loved his Bible and loved to pray. Day by 
day, far into the nineties, lie toiled up the steep staircase, and 
poured out his heart in prayer. And sometimes I stood below 
and listened. 

Among those nearer to our time it would be difficult not to 
mention Mr. Lyman Payne, a man of clear head, firm convic- 
tions, sterling character, and warm heart. These were some of 
the men who left their mark on me. How many good men 
and saintly women from this church look down upon us to-day 
from their home above the stars. 

But many remain to bear the burdens, men and women as 
good and true as any that have gone before, and I greet you 
to-day. For all your faith and love, and work for the dear 
Master, I give you joy. 

I am thankful to have been born among these hills. I am 
thankful for a godly ancestry. I am thankful for all the friend- 
ships here of past and present years. I am thankful for the 
help and, training of this church. I am thankful for all the 
missionary history of this church, your work, your gifts and 
your prayers. I am thankful that for three decades you have 
followed your missionary with love and prayers and benedic- 
tions. I am thankful that you still believe in the regeneration 
of China, poor China, dear China. 

We look back to-day, but so also we look forward. The 
aeon of this church is not filled out in a century, but only well 
begun. We must gird ourselves anew for work, joyful that 
ours is the unspeakable privilege to be witnesses for Him whom 
having not seen we love. In a little while, "such a little 
while" the Greek hath it, (Heb. 10:37), and one by one wo 
shall hear the Master's "Well done," and our faces will shine 
with a supernal light as we enter that celestial country where 
our hearts have been so long. 



A Woman's Recollections, 



BY MRS. ELIZABETH HINSDALE HALL, OF WARE, MASS. 



"When I was a boy," writes Lowell, "all JSTew England was 
a pulpit." The meeting house was so much the community 
centre that no better picture of the village life can be found 
than the Sunday gathering at the church. Certainly no more 
devout worshippers ever assembled than those who gathered at 
the Congregational church in Hinsdale fifty years ago. 

The church then stood on the hill opposite the Major Em- 
mons homestead and in its simple, dignified architecture our 
fathers may have expressed their own religion, a religion which 
like the church on the hill top was something above their every- 
day life. 

Long before the solemn Sabbath bell had stopped tolling the 
steady family horses had brought their loads, decorous New 
England farmers with their wives, and the solemn-eyed chil- 
dren. Occasionally comes a deacon on horseback with his wife 
behind him. The stepping stone or horse block is an imposing 
affair, over six feet long and four wide, with steps descending 
to the ground. 

In winter the elder members of the family carry up the 
church aisle little footstoves, filled with coals which diffuse a 
mild and short-lived heat through the square pew in which the 
family is grouped. 

In the pulpit sits the pastor, Mr. Hawley, tall and dark, who 
reads in his well-remembered deep tones the scripture lesson to 
the end. 

Then the keen ears of the children catch the sharp little ring 
of the tuning fork in the choir, the humming of the note by 
the different parts, treble, second, tenor and bass; then the con- 



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gregation rise noisily, let down the seats in their square, un- 
painted pews, and turn to face the choir while they sing the 
solemn hymn or nimble fuguing tune. 

The congregation still stands through, the long prayer, quite 
the length of a sermon of to-day. How familiar the petition 
" May the time speedily come when the swords shall be beaten 
into plowshares and the spears into pruning-hooks." And this, 
" Bring us together, O Lord, in the after part of the day, better 
fitted and prepared for divine service than ever yet we have 
been." 

Occasionally Mr. Hawley exchanged pulpits with some one 
of his neighbors, Parson Jennings of Dalton, Dr. Humphrey 
or Dr. Todd of Pittstield, Mr. Hyde of Lee > Mr - Bisbee of 
Worthington or Mr. Knight of Peru. 

When there is an approaching marriage the clerk of the par- 
ish publishes the bans from the gallery as follows: "Oh .yes, 
oh yes, Marriage intended," and then follow the names of the 
young man and maiden. And this notice must be repeated for 
three successive public gatherings. 

The sermon occupies an hour or more and is listened to most 
attentively. 

Perhaps it may be interesting to look about this quiet, re- 
spectful audience and study the Hinsdale parishioners of fifty 
years ago. 

The men are clad in coats of homespun, which, like their 
wives' gowns and the children's garments, were spun and woven 
in the family homestead, carefully cut and made by Miss Sally 
Pierce, to whom belongs much credit for the thrifty neatness 
of the Peru and Hinsdale worshippers. 

Before the last garment was ready for Sunday wearing, the 
travelling shoemaker had equipped the family with stout boots 
and shoes made from hide raised upon the farm and tanned by 
Mr. Knight. 

A travelling barber trimmed the locks of the men and boys 
spring and fall, and in Peru one spring great excitement was 



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aroused among the little boys on the side roads by the announce- 
ment that the "turnpike boys" had adopted an entirely new 
style of hair cutting. low the boys who lived at the crossing 
of the highways or the turnpike, were of course leaders of fash- 
ion among the side road boys, and no woman of to-day could 
adopt a Parisian fashion more quickly than the little boys seized 
upon their mothers' stone china bowls, and thereafter they ap- 
peared in a stubby thatch gauged entirely by the limitations of 
a quart bowl. 

At the heads of the pews sit such men as E. H. Goodrich, 
Lemuel Parsons, Charles Plumkett, Simon Huntington, Joseph 
White, William W. Adams, Dr. Kittredge, Kobert Milliken, 
Oliver Colt, Levi and William Hinsdale,. and many other noble 
men. 

To-day science, art and travel have come to us, and have 
said "I give you much, in return give me of your individ- 
uality, 1 ' but fifty years ago these sturdy, upright New England 
men heard little of the thought and achievements of the out- 
side world. They thought and acted for themselves, and so 
formed character as clearly outlined as their own Greylock 
against the sky. 

Perhaps no man enters more closely into the life of the com- 
munity than the village doctor, the slightly built, energetic 
man, Dr. Kittredge, commonly and affectionately known as 
"Dr. Frank." He fought disease alone, for only the kind- 
hearted neighbor stood in the place of the white capped nurse 
of to-day, and in the absence of clocks the clear stars at night 
sometimes served as time keepers. 

It was more difficult to locate in the Hinsdale church the 
village schoolmaster, for the young man who was preparing 
for a professional career "boarded around," and so sat with the 
family in which the Sabbath found him. 

One teacher whose influence has reached the lives of many. 
Miss Elvira Payne, kept at the house of Mr. William Lyman a 
private school, which a few fortunate children attended. 



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White the collection is being taken a tall man wearing a long 
brown coat, with a saddle girth as a belt, slowly arises, unfas- 
tens the belt and from his hip pocket draws out a few pennies 
which he offers as his contribution. This is one of Hinsdale's 
best known characters, William Burnham, whose quaint, origi- 
nal sayings are still quoted. No one took a deeper interest in 
the Hinsdale church and the spiritual welfare Of each member 
than did William Burnham. 

It was his habit to chalk upon the dark red door of his own 
room the names of those whom he wished to remember in his 
prayers morning and evening. From time to time his neigh- 
bors sent him much needed gifts of supplies. His return was 
characteristic and perhaps more touching than any other could 
have been; a carefully worded blessing written in a quaint 
hand upon a slip of paper, and personally presented as a token 
of his gratitude. Perhaps nothing in connection with William 
Burnham was more pathetic than his will. 

The neighbors who shared the expenses of his burial found 
that he had afforded himself the satisfaction of a last will and 
testament, in which he named one of the deacons as executor 
of his imaginary estate, left several legacies and finally made 
the Missionary society his legatee, with a heartfelt prayer for 
the continuance of its work. 

But the sermon is ended, the benediction is pronounced and 
after a few moments the classes quickly arrange themselves for 
Sunday school. After the Sunday school session those living 
near hurry home to dinner that they may be ready for the next 
service at half past one, while those who live at a distance 
eat their basket lunches, and in winter refill their footstoves 
at Mr. Emmons' or Mr. Post's, on the opposite corner. Then 
' it was that the men discussed town affairs, the new railroad 
which was to run from Boston to Albany, and the foolhardy 
schemes of the men who imagined they could cut through 
Washington mountain ; the wives exchanged notes on their 
carding and spinning, the number of Thanksgiving pies and 



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cakes ; whether these new fangled matches were as good as the 
old-fashioned flint lock and tow. 

One good wife who is planning the extravagance of a letter 
to an absent neighbor bustles about collecting news and mes- 
sages that this important letter may carry its twenty-five cents 
worth of information. 

The children cluster together and in a subdued state of ex- 
citement tell their own bits of news: how Dr. Frank had been 
at their house to set an arm, and how this cold morning the 
family had awakened to find that the fire in the great fireplace 
had died out, and a trip of two miles must be made across the 
snow-covered meadows to the nearest neighbors for the coals 
with which to start the family fire. 

The young men and maidens make their plans for the singing 
school in the evening and for the sugaring off party during the 
week, for in those days the hostess sent each young lady's invi- 
tation to the young man supposed to be most interested in her 
presence at the entertainment, and so whether the supposition 
was true or false he delivered the invitation and secured a 
partner. 

With such entertaining topics the time passes rapidly, and 
the congregation assembles for the second service at half past 
one. With an interval for rest this is followed by a third ser- 
vice at early candle light, after which comes that which is par- 
ticularly devoted to the young people — the singing school. 
The singers are arranged about the room according to their 
parts, and with the help of a leader, a bass viol and a flute, 
played acceptably so many years by Frank Knight, they sing 
with much zest the hymns, fugues and psalms. 

It is fitting that we should close this Hinsdale Sabbath of 
fifty years ago with a song of praise, for these young people 
who sing are the men and women of a later day, who have 
shown to the world by their lives, the strength and influence 
of the Hinsdale church. 



REMINISCENCES. 



BY MRS. LAURA EMMONS FRISSELL, (iN HER EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR), 
OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS., AND READ BY HER. 



At the request of the honorable committee to contribute 
reminiscences of the early school days, will comply. 

At the age of five years was one of the scholars assembled 
in the small brown school house located at the end of the west 
corner of the common, where the church formerly stood, oppo- 
site Mr. Jackson's dwelling. It was minus any modern im- 
provements; seats for the little ones were made of split logs 
supported by two sticks at each end to keep them in their posi- 
tion. The next year we occupied the present school house on 
Maple street. The seats in that house were arranged amphi- 
theatre-like. Pleased were the children when they arrived at 
the age to go up higher. Our book to get knowledge from 
was Webster's spelling book. It contained the first rudiments 
of learning from A, B, C, to punctuation. Scholars must learn 
the multiplication table thoroughly before they could cipher. 
With slate and pencil in hand, they took the first lesson in 
addition. The teachers were clothed with authority to make 
rules and have them obeyed. Not so much moral suasion as 
legal suasion was used, as the rod and ferule were often used. 
Every other Saturday, Rev. Mr. Knight spent Saturday after- 
noon in teaching the catechism. Silence reigned in the room 
while he remained explaining to us the great truths. The exer- 
cises were closed by his long prayer. The scholars arose, made 
their obeisance and he made his exit to our great relief. He 
had a habit of carrying his horsewhip everywhere he went. 

The Sabbath school was organized not far from 1819. The 
sessions were Saturday afternoon. Mr. Hawley, the pastor, 
said for every ten verses we learned we should receive a penny. 



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I earned twelve cents. How to spend it was the question. 
The pastor settled it by telling the wants of the foreign mis- 
sions. Two young lads, David and Henry Hinsdale, one had 
earned thirteen cents, the other fourteen ; one gave one penny, 
the other two, saving the silver piece to dispose of themselves. 
No Sabbath school libraries to read from ; other reading small. 
The family Bible, the life of some noted person, the Planopist, 
a small Dictionary, Robert Thomas' Almanac, constituted the 
family library. Children as well as the parents attended church. 
Many families possessed the luxury of a footstove. As my 
home then was near the church, mother would say Sabbath 
morning to my father, "Be sure to build up the fire with hard 
wood so as to have coals to replenish the footstoves." The 
general result was a huge pile of ashes deposited in the corner 
of the fireplace in exchange for coals. The minister sometimes 
would make mistakes in quoting Scripture as Rev. Mr. Ballan- 
tine did in exchange with our pastor. He told of faithful 
Abraham, Jacob selling his birthright, the wisdom of Solomon, 
but Moses built the ark. Parson Hinsdale from his pew spoke 
up loud and said " Noah." 

I think ministers will bear much watching. Mr. Hawley 
was a good teacher, as is known. Rev. Mr. Bisbee, Rev. John 
Russ, who was a home missionary in Ohio, John Richards, a 
native of this place, a lawyer in Milwaukee, John Frissell of 
Peru, a noted surgeon and physician, all studied here at one 
time, others afterwards. 

Another incident I remember, when Mr. William Burnham 
was married. Mr. Hawley charged him to remember his cov- 
enant and to read the Bible daily and keep the commandments, 
to which Burnham replied in a loud voice: "All these things 
have I kept from my youth up." 



REMARKS. 



BY JUDGE JAMES M. BARKER, OF PITTSFIELD, MASS. 



My -friends, when the committee asked me to come here I 
was glad, because I knew it would wake again the recollections 
of early days, and those recollections it is pleasant to revive. 
When they asked me also, having had my acceptance first, if I 
would speak to them of those recollections, I knew not whether 
I ought, because they are the recollections of one who was then 
a very little boy? 

In the early autumn of 1849, I came to Hinsdale. It was 
not then the Hinsdale of to-day. The river road to Dalton was 
not built. We came by what now seems a little by-way, under 
the railroad, winding around through a quiet dale. We did 
not even, in going to the place where I was to dwell, come 
through this street or this village at all; and there was no more 
quiet or happy valley than the little one in which dwelt the old 
gentleman and his wife with whom I was to live. Next above 
him Mr. Archie Barrett, then over to the right, in the field, 
Mr. Amos Barrett. Farther up the hill, "Cady Hill," Mr. 
Noah Barrett. And so in the afternoon, with my father and 
my mother, we drove up to a little brown house, a one story 
house, with a wide flat stone jutting out into the street before 
its open door: a little window on either side; at the east end, 
the great chimney with its fireplace, and its old-fashioned oven ; 
a door in the corner of the room and a winding staircase around 
the chimney up to the attic, where, with its west window, and 
its low, sloping roof of rough, unpainted beams and boards, 
and the bare floor, was my room. In the main room below 
there was besides the fireplace in the east end, a bed in the 
northwest corner, curtained from the room ; in the center the 
table at which we ate; between the door and the window the 



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clock which told the time ; under the clock, a small square 
stand on which rested the family Bible ; a little lean-to in the 
rear and partitioned from that a little bedroom; and in the 
west end of the house, the pantry with its trap door to the cel- 
lar. Now the old brown house is gone; all that I see there is 
the acre of land with the little brook running through it; the 
tall trees are gone ; the white rose that blosso'med in the spring 
time is gone ; the little bit of asparagus plant, with its delicate 
sprays and red berries, strange plant to me, which grew by the 
well, is gone. The memories are here. They are very precious 
for they include, those memories of a year, something which 
was new and peculiarly pleasant to me, in my life, when for 
the first time, I was away from home. 

That first year I studied in the white building with the 
Grecian columns, under the tuition of the gentleman who has 
been so generously and so well spoken of, Professor Lincoln. 
When my father brought me to him, and he said, "What is 
the boy to do?" and the reply was that I was to go to college, 
I remember that he said, "Well, what does he know?" Of 
course, he knew nothing, or next to nothing ; and so this Pro- 
fessor said in a tongue which was strange to me, "Well, then, 
we will let him grub on Latin." Latin — I didn't know what 
it was, and "grub" was a word I had never heard; but I found 
what it was to " grub on Latin," for with a set of men, some 
of whom were your boys, Dr. Taylor, and who were then be- 
ginning to fit for their college course, I was set to learn the 
Latin Grammar by heart. I went to-day into the boys' study- 
room, and there was the place where my desk stood, and there 
was my friend, Mack Payne, and he certainly was occupying 
that room just as thoroughly as Professor Lincoln used to 
occupy it. I could not forget the very place where, when 
school had been going perhaps a week, I sat and heard read the 
list of boys who were to declaim in the hall on the next decla- 
mation day ; and I heard in that list the word Barker, but I 
supposed there were plenty of Barkers in the school. The an- 



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nouncement was made that those who were to speak on the next 
declamation day would stop and rehearse at a certain time. Not 
wishing to understand that I was one of them, I took my way 
carelessly, no, I won't say carelessly, but I took my way through 
the woods and watched the sunshine go through the leaves and 
happily got home. The next morning, after school opened, 
Professor Lincoln called me to his desk and said, "Did you not 
hear me read off the names of those who were to declaim?" 
"Yes, sir." "Why did you not stay to rehearse?" "I did 
not know that you called my name." Then he said, " You are 
pretty young. You will come on the next declamation day and 
you will see how it is done, and then you must speak the week 
after." And I remember that I declaimed regularly after that. 
Oh ! there were many things which I learned there for the 
first time. I remember standing on those steps, near one of the 
Grecian columns, on the first morning of school, when a tall 
and handsome boy, now gone, was talking with some pretty 
girls, who are gone, too; and I, in the innocence of my heart, 
thought I would mix in that conversation, and accordingly 
made some remark to them, whereupon the tall and handsome 
boy turned his wondering eyes upon me and said, "Who are 



vou 



0" 



Then I remember, also, how I learned the lesson that pun- 
ishment quickly follows sin. That was one Fast day. I was 
up at Mr. Emmons'. I think we did everything that we ought 
to do on Fast day ; but we did more, we had a jumping match, 
and the result was a sprained ankle for myself. 

There were many, many things that I remember. This 
church I know stood on the Flat. And I like to call it the 
" Flat." The Methodist church stood on the Flat, too, but I 
attended this church habitually, although my grandmother 
with whom I lived was a Methodist, and so sometimes I went 
to that church. And I know that I learned in the course 
of that year that when the communion service was held in this 
church but few partook, but at the love feast in the Methodist 



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church, all might partake. I remember one who is now a pas- 
tor and what he did for me. I was walking one day from the 
little valley through the woods to the Academy, when I met 
this man, then a fellow student in the Academy. I remember 
the scene when he got me in a clearing, a solemn place that 
always is for me, and he said to me, "Madison, how about your 
soul? " Well, that brought the question home ; and so once in 
the little Methodist conference room on the Flat, one winter 
night, when the room was full and the box stove glowed red, the 
same question was brought home to me again. There was in 
Hinsdale a strong and earnest religious feeling, and it was a 
feeling which has borne its fruit. 1 thank you for having al- 
lowed me to give in this broken way some of my recollections, 
and will detain you no longer. 



ADDRESS. 



BY REV. DANIEL MERRIMAN, D. D., OF WORCESTER, MASS 



As I was partaking of the very bountiful lunch which has 
been so exquisitely prepared and served, I was reminded of a 
scene which is attributed to the prophet Daniel, whose name I 
happen to bear. Do you know what remark he is said to have 
made when he was brought face to face with the lions in the 
lions' den? He said, as he surveyed the hungry, snarling faces 
before him, "Well, there is one comfort to be had out of this. 
There will be no after dinner speaking so far as I am con- 
cerned." Your pastor marred my pleasure in the lunch a little 
by telling me that this would not be the case with me. 

However, it is very sweet and honorable to be here and to 
take part in this commemoration. I deem it a special privilege 
that I can have the opportunity of returning and paying my af- 
fection and loyal devotion on the altars and at the graves of my 
forbears. My grandfathers on both sides, so far as their mortal 
remains are concerned, lie buried in this cemetery. My parents, 
and my four older brothers were born here. My parents were 
members of this church. I am not myself, as you know, a 
Hinsdale boy, but I came here when I was a lad with my 
father. I came here frequently when my older brothers were 
in college, and spent some of my vacations here when in col- 
lege myself. I came here with my father before we went to 
the West to assist him in placing the stone at the grave of in v 
paternal grandfather whose name I have the honor to bear. 
So that I feel that I belong to Hinsdale. 

It is a thrilling thing to hear the story, as we have heard it 
so admirably told this morning, of the high, strenuous, intel- 
lectual and moral life of those men and women of a hundred - 



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years ago, who lived and wrought here. Between all the lines 
of the dry record there is a pathos arid a poetry to which none 
but a vivid and strong historical imagination can give suitable 
expression. I think, however, that the people of Hinsdale have 
reason to be as proud of this day and of the commemoration 
which they have been able to give to those who have gone 
before, as they are proud of the days and deeds of 1795. They 
have as much reason to be proud of the men and women who 
still keep alive the fire on the old altar, as they have of those 
who first started the flame ; and I know not which to be most 
grateful for, those who laid the first foundation here, or those 
who have come after them in all these long years and who still 
maintain the ancient faith. 

I have been told by your accomplished and indefatigable 
clerk, whom I may call my friend, that one of my grand- 
fathers, who was a Revolutionary soldier, was among the 
"kickers" against the assessment which was laid on the people 
of the town for the building of this church. "But he had to 
pay just the same." I confess that I rather rejoice that he w r as 
a kicker, because the capacity to kick against a fancied in- 
justice is one of the attributes of a Christian manhood. Crom- 
well was a kicker. You might go back of him and say Paul 
was a kicker; Luther was a kicker; the Puritans all were 
kickers. I don't mean to say that this man was right, but I 
cannot help feeling glad for him and for others who had their 
own opinions, yet -submitted to the law. I believe that the 
strength which the men of Hinsdale and of this church have, 
in a great variety of occupations and stations, exhibited, not 
only here, but the round world over, has been due very largely 
to their independence, yet respect for law. 

It is a glorious thing that with all the changes that are go- 
ing on, this ancient church has not changed except for the 
better ; that in all the sweep of these hundred years, it has held 
up and still holds up the- ancient truth, the ancient doctrine, 
modifying it only so far as has been necessary to keep it in 



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sympathetic touch with the movement of the generations. I 
doubt if there can be found in any town of the size a more 
admirable representation of the growing power of the Puritan 
faith, the Puritan thought, the Puritan intelligence than is ex- 
hibited here to-day. 

It has been a most thrilling and a most delightful sight 
which we have seen to-day, and it has been a most gracious 
thing to be here; and I for one, though not Hinsdale born, am 
glad to bring my tribute of thankfulness and admiration to 
those who so many years ago laid these foundations, and to 
those also who have kept them strong and have built upon 
them down to this day. 



ADDRESS. 



ADDRESS BY KEY. EUFUS APTHOKP, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO. 



I was glad to come here to-day, and although I had promised 
the pastor of a church of which I am a member that I would 
take care of things during his vacation, yet when the invitation 
came from this church to spend to-day at this centennial, I 
wrote him telling him about it and he said, "Go, all right, go." 
So I came. As soon as I received this invitation to come my 
mind went right back to my boyhood — of course, to my joining 
the church and to my life in connection with the church here, 
particularly during the years that I was in the Academy, the 
four years that I studied there, or the year before that perhaps, 
one year or two years after I gave my heart to Christ. I 
thought, if they ask me to say anything down there, I will just 
talk about the grand men that lived in Hinsdale in those years. 
My mind goes back sixty years since I began to go to Sunday 
school in this house when I was six years old. And I have 
been thinking of these grand men and noble women. We 
have hardly said enough about the women to-day. Last week 
a lady from Illinois was at my house for a day or two, and I 
wanted to show her all that I could about Cleveland, and so we 
went out Euclid avenue by the electric cars to Garfield's mon- 
ument, and we went up and looked at that, and she said, "I 
am glad I came to Cleveland if I don't see anything more than 
this monument." 

As we came through Pennsylvania on our way here, they 
were holding a political meeting at Harrisburg, and there was 
intense excitement on the part of the men that came into the 
cars. They talked earnestly of patriotism and the duty of cit- 
izens to their countrv. 



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Then coming by way of New York, they pointed out, as we 
came up the Hudson yesterday, Grant's tomb; arid as we came 
past Newburgh, the large house where Washington had his 
headquarters was shown us; and then I thought of Garfield 
and of Grant, of Washington and of Lincoln. I thought of 
these men as finishing the life which God gave them, as doing 
the work which God gave them to do, and then my mind came 
right over here to old Hinsdale and I said, " Hinsdale forty 
years ago was just full of such men and such women, men and 
women having the spirit of these leaders, the intention^ the 
desire, the purpose to do just what God wanted them to do." I 
believe that, and so I am just glad to come and look into your 
faces and to take your hands and to tell you this afternoon that 
I believe that, and that it has been a great help to me through 
my life. I rejoice that honorable mention is made here to-day 
of Mr. Hawley's work. I recall some of his prayers and other 
things which that good man did. I used to take off ray hat in 
the street to him. We school boys were taught to do that. I 
remember I used to run away when he came over to our house. 
I didn't know about going where the minister was. I didn't 
love Christ then and I didn't want to see his servant. At a 
later day we had some good meetings up in Emmons' hall. I 
remember one night after I had become interested, I said, 
"Now I am going to that meeting and I am going to give my 
heart to Christ." And that night I couldn't find the cows in 
time to go to the meeting. The next night when the next 
meeting would be, I said, "I will try to go," and the next time 
I did find the cows and I did go, and I remember that when 
this good brother Taylor called upon us to stand op, those who 
wanted to be Christians, I felt as though I could answer that I 
wanted to be, and when he came round and asked me, " Rufus, 
will you serve the Lord as long as you live?" I said, " Yes, I 
will." And he said, "Give us your hand on that," and so I 
did. And I have never forgotten that. I cannot forget it. 
There was a promise and I was pledged. I was committed, 
and it was a great help to me in those days to be committed. 



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Then after one or two years I came down to this Academy. 
You have spoken of Professor Lincoln here to-day ; I am glad. 
I think his influence here did more for me than the influence 
of any other man except Mr. Taylor. There were not many 
Christians in the school when I first came. I remember one 
winter we were going to have a day of prayer for colleges. 
Professor Lincoln said to me, u The day of prayer for colleges 
comes soon and so we must be ready for it. Only three or 
four professing Christians in the school ; we must be ready for 
that day." We tried to be ready for it. We began to hold 
meetings and when the day came, it was planned that we 
should have a meeting in the church at the usual hour, at eleven 
o'clock, and a meeting for the school was called in the Academy 
for nine o'clock. We went up to the Academy at nine as 
usual, and some of the young men had become interested. I 
recall the first boy who spoke in the meeting that morning. 
He had been one of my Sunday school boys, Chauncey Good- 
rich, and he said, "I have decided to serve the Lord Jesus 
Christ." And then his brother said, " Chauncey was not go- 
ing alone," and he came; and then another over there, and 
another over there, so that when we went up an hour and a 
half afterwards to meet with the older people of this church 
and township, we were not surprised to see this house almost 
crowded that day ; in one sense we were prepared for it. I re- 
call with great interest those meetings, and those who came 
into the church, and our efforts there. One thing strikes me 
which I recall just now. We prayed for some who had gone 
out to Williams before, — Rockwell, Lincoln, and Adams. 
And, do you know that in a few days, Lincoln came down here 
to see his brother, and he fell on his neckband they kissed each 
other, and we found that he had given his heart to Christ, and 
he said that Rockwell and Adams were going with him. I 
learned the next year that there was no general feeling in col- 
lege at that time, but the influence here in Hinsdale seemed to 
single them out. So to-day I am reminded of some of those 
things and I am grateful for the opportunity to speak of them. 



REMARKS. 



BY REV. DR. JUDSON SMITH, OF BOSTON, MASS., 
SECRETARY OF THE A. B. C. F. M. 



Each household knows its own joy, and a stranger intermed- 
dletli not therewith. That joy belongs this day to you, the 
honored pastor of this church, to all the present members of 
the church, and to those gathered here from other parts who 
have at some time had connection with the church. But we 
who are here by your courtesy understand your rejoicings; we 
too are men, we have had godly homes and a godly ancestry 
like these of which you speak ; we also are connected with 
churches that have a history; and w T e bring you our congratu- 
lations, hearty and sincere, on this memorable anniversary. 

This has been a marked day to us all. I think those of you 
who have known the history of the church these many years 
past must have heard the review of the century with a sense of 
surprise that so much life has been centered here, that so much 
of power and high endowment from other quarters have been 
brought here to the service of this church, that influences so 
wholesome and so far-reaching have from generation to gener- 
ation gone out from this center. In reality, it is a brief review 
of the history of our land for a hundred years that we have 
been considering to-day ; for Hinsdale is part of a far wider 
community. The towns about have shared in a degree your 
life, and you have communicated of your life to them. The 
influences of the nation at large have been felt here, and you 
in your turn have given forth influences that have been shap- 
ing the nation. Institutions of learning have fed, refreshed 
and inspired you here ; you have contributed also to the 
strength and the glory of these institutions of learning. And 



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thus we have learned afresh what we sometimes forget, that in 
a real sense every individual is the center of history; all the 
past flows in upon him ; all the future is in some way affected 
by him. The heavens arch above us in the perfect hemisphere 
wherever we are, and to-day we stand here in Hinsdale vitally 
connected with this century of wonderful history, so rich in 
fruit and richer still in promise. 

Here is my friend, Dr. Goodrich, one of your sons, an 
honored missionary of the American Board in China. Through 
him, this third of a century, you have been vitally connected 
with a problem of the greatest significance on the other side 
of the globe, — the evangelization of the most populous and in- 
fluential nation in the Oriental world. He is there at the head 
©f the Gordon Theological Seminary, charged with the duty of 
training young men for preachers and teachers and influential 
leaders in the Christian communities connected with his own 
mission and other missions. One of the most prominent in- 
fluences that are to-day operating upon China to turn her away 
from her steadfast gaze upon the past, and to lift up her eyes, 
to the bright future and to the Son of God that is to light that 
future for her and for the world, in this school where Dr. 
Goodrich has his home and his labors. And through him your 
hand is upon that glorious work. 

Another of your sons that has been spoken of to-day, Dr. 
Haskell, is in Bulgaria, engaged in Christian labors that lie very 
close to the center of the evangelization of that most interesting 
people; and your hand, through him, is upon that problem. 
Thus in many lines your influence is reaching far and wide, 
and reinforcing all the nobler movements of the times. 

The recital of the names of your pastors and the churches 
they have served, including my honored brother, the last in the 
succession, enables us to see in a fresh light how homogeneous 
is the society to which we belong; how impossible it is for a 
man of power and of consecration to live out his life and do his 
work and not leave an impress upon his times. Here on this 



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platform we have listened to men in the midst of their powers 
tracing out the beginnings of their life, speaking with bated 
breath and swelling heart of the impulse here given, the new 
light cast upon life and the world for them. 

It is a great history which you contemplate and a great inher- 
itance, brothers and sisters of to-day in Hinsdale, that has come 
to you ; but it is a greater future toward which you move and 
it is to that our eyes turn with hope and expectation. The 
church as a whole is strong when its parts are strong; and the 
sane, healing, uplifting influences that, from hill towns like this, 
have gone out into the wider and more active scenes of the 
church life, the civic life and the educational life of the country 
and the world, are a real and inseparable part of the things we 
love and upon which we build our hopes for the coming days. 
Though at the time they may have seemed insignificant, their 
outcome has been sure and great beyond all speech. Our own 
Lowell speaks this truth well: 

"O small beginnings, ye are great and strong, 
Based on a faithful heart and weariless brain ; 

Ye build the future fair, ye conquer wrong, 
Ye earn the crown and wear it not in vain." 

The Scriptures give it in nobler form : " There shall be an 
handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; 
the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon." 



REMARKS. 



BY REV. G. H. FLINT, OF SOUTH BOSTON, MASS. 



It is unfortunate for a young man of a young generation 
to become the representative of a family or a generation which 
has been famous in years gone by. Perhaps 1 could not 
feel more unworthy in coming before any gathering of peo- 
ple than in coining before this people, who knew my uncle 
so well. We sometimes ask, "What is in a name?" There 
may be a great deal. A person told me this morning on the 
train that a certain grandmother very earnestly requested 
her son to bestow upon his infant son the striking name of his 
grandfather, and if he would do that, she would give him a 
thousand dollars; but for some reason the father wouldn't do 
it. He evidently feared he would fail to sustain the reputa- 
tion of the famous name. And so as we come representing 
those who have gone before us, it brings a large responsibility 
to the younger generation. I remember hearing it said of the 
Rev. Henry Hopkins that he wanted to go West so that he 
should not henceforth be known as the son of his father ; and 
thus standing here and representing my uncle, I do so with a 
keen sense of very great un worthiness. It seems to me a more 
profoundly sincere man never lived. I believe that he was 
one of the saintliest and most godly men that I have come to 
know, and that the formative influence of his life upon my 
own should have been terminated just at my entrance upon 
college life has always been a source of deep regret. I have 
very often repented of many short comings in my own life, but 
of the name of my family I have never been ashamed. 

As we go over the one hundred years we now celebrate, a 
thought is suggested to me by a principle in physical science. 



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Science teaches us that there is absolutely no loss of force what- 
ever. Exactly the power and the heat that the sun stored up 
in itself originally is present to-day. Invention has unlocked 
these stores of power and we have learned that one kind of en- 
ergy is changed into another, but there has never been one 
single atom lost from the beginning of time. Strike an 
anvil heavily with a mighty hammer and the mechanical 
motion is converted into heat with no particle of loss. How 
much more is it true in the realm of the spiritual. When a 
godly man, a saintly woman has left an impress upon a com- 
munity and it has become stamped indelibly there, is not the 
force and power of that life as absolutely true and permanent 
as any mental or physical force which we know? We must 
believe that there is not one single thought which has ever gone 
out from a soul, which bears the image of God upon it, but 
that that thought is eternal. I think of the lives of all those 
who have been mentioned here, as sending out a certain current 
of influence in this town and community, so that every one 
who has come under has become broadened. As the streams, 
rivulets and brooks find their way down the hill-side ulti- 
mately to the ocean and truly yet inappreciably enlarge its 
enormous contents, so the little rills of holy influence just as 
certainly swell the spiritual atmosphere, which encircles the 
earth. And if physical force is never lost, is it therefore possi- 
ble that spiritual force can be lost? Thus friends we come 
here as the inheritors of this influence to-day. Surely yours 
is a goodly heritage. We come into the possession of the 
influence of those lives as it instills its gracious blessing into 
our own lives. Surely, then, those who represent the present 
generation here, having received such an heritage as this, can 
never be in doubt in respect to your future because such in- 
fluences as these can never die. 

Take a little plant and surround it with sunshine, earth and 
moisture, and it is forced to grow. Take people here who have 
inherited such influence as this and been trained in Christian 



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nurture, and their future is assured. I am very glad to know 
that the modern truth of child nature and nurture has been so 
beautifully illustrated here ; that the boys and girls in their ex- 
tremest youth are gradually growing up and developing into 
the fullness of the Christian experience. The soul is naturally 
Christian from its birth. The man stained in sin is a mon- 
strosity of nature, infinitely greater than physical deformity. 
The normal process is that all the germinal elements of char- 
acter should develop into Christ precisely similar to the growth 
of the tiny bud into the complete, beautiful flower. Boys are 
spoiled at two years of age. The boys in this community have 
never been spoiled because of the heritage which is theirs. 
Surely you will go forth from the inspiration of this day with 
a faith which will be as strong and true and lasting as we can 
possibly find anywhere. The rugged strength of these hill 
towns is the life of our country. It sends forth its stream of 
influence to purify and uplift wherever it goes. Let us all 
then be true to our sacred trust solemnly committed to our 
stewardship, and our own future and the future of those for 
whom we labor will never be in doubt. 



CLOSING REMARKS. 



BY REV. MR. LAIRD. 



We have felt ourselves straightened through all the day by 
the manner in which our railroad accommodations have limited 
the hours we can spend together here. We had desired to 
continue these exercises longer and to hear from some others, 
but the time for closing has arrived and it does not seem best 
to continue, because some may be late to the trains. 

We thank you, friends, that you have regarded our invita- 
tion so kindly, and that you have been with us to-day. Now 
as you go to your homes, will you not remember us in your 
prayers that God's abundant blessing may rest upon the church 
and society as we enter upon the second century of their ex- 
istence. We thank those who have so kindly contributed to 
the exercises, and deep in our hearts we say, God bless you all. 
We will sing our closing hymn, and the benediction will be 
given by Rev. Dr. Taylor. 



The Centennial was favored with a beautiful day. A large 
number of friends were present both from a distance and from 
adjacent towns. The pews and aisles below were packed with 
auditors, and the galleries were well filled. Former citizens 
held delightful reunions during the recess interval. The mid- 
day lunch, provided by Barr of Springfield, was served in the 
open air. 

A gallery of likenesses of former friends of the society, 
upon the walls of the chapel, consisted of over two hundred 
pictures. It was a highly gratifying feature of the Centen- 
nial, and was visited by large numbers. 



CENTENNIAL COMMITTEES. 



PROGRAMME. 
J. H. LAIRD, JAMES HOSMER, G. T. PLUNKETT. 

GENERAL. 

J. H. LAIRD, A. S. STORM, 

M. M. WENTWORTH, . E. H. GOODRICH, 

W. A. TAYLOR, J. B. WOODBURN, 

JAMES HOSMER, M. C. STOWELL, 

E. W. CLARK, F. B. COOK, 

G. T. PLUNKETT. 

PICTURE GALLERY. 

MRS. L. M. PAYNE, MRS. ABBIE T. PLUNKETT, 

MRS. J. E. SHATTUCK, MRS. G. T. PLUNKETT, 

C. W. GOODRICH. 

FINANCES. 
J. B. WOODBURN, M. C. STOWELL, C. P. TAYLOR. 

COLL A TION. 

MRS. C. C. ROBINSON, MRS. J. S. COLE, 

MRS. L. M. PAYNE, MRS. T. A. FRISSELL. 



COPIES OF ORIGINAL PAPERS. 



A rate made by us, the subscribers of Partridgefield West 
Society, on the polls and estate of the inhabitants, and the estate 
of the non-resident proprietors of the said Society for raising 
the sum of forty-one hundred dollars for the purpose of build- 
ing and finishing a meeting house in said Society which was 
granted at Society meeting on the 24th day of December last, 
with the further sum of two hundred three dollars and ninety- 
seven cents produced by a convenient fractional division in the 
apportionment of the first mentioned sum. 



Richard Starr, Sr., 


$111 40 


Oliver Watkins, 


S27 90 


Samuel Matthews, 


9 19 


Benjamin Sawyer, 


55 80 


Joseph Witter, 


18 17 


Jonathan Phillip, 


12 84 


Stephen Dunwell, 


11 78 


Salmon Byxbee, 


9 04 


Joseph Davenport, 


9 04 


Ichabod Post, 


26 69 


Septimeus Witter, 


30 50 


William Avery, 


9 04 


Samuel Jones, 


9 50 


Chester Cady, 


1 37 


Moses Yeomans, 


20 76 


Elisha Carrier, 


14 66 


John Frary, 


9 04 


Nehemiah Frost, 


21 51 


William Richards, 


167 45 


Philip Witherell, 


4 26 


Land lately owned by James 


Samuel Sibley, 


38 08 


Pease, 


8 68 


Richard Church, 


12 24 


Eleazer Blackman, 


17 11 


Artemas Howard, 


14 73 


Parker Hall, 


38 17 


Abiel Hovey, 


43 88 


Lawson Watkins, 


9 04 


Aaron Bixbee, 


50 42 


David Miller, 


38 78 


Joseph Witter, Jr., 


53 91 


Joseph Wells, 


9 04 


Joseph Sprague, 


13 60 


Nathan Torrey, Jr., 


11 17 


Christopher Crary, 


24 10 


John Cole, 


11 17 


Eleazer Loomis, 


33 53 


John Adams, 


29 43 


Abraham Washburn, 


32 78 


Ebenezer Payne, 


36 58 


Lemuel Bullard, 


25 33 


Jesse Booth, 


15 90 


James Tracey, 


32 16 


Isaac Dresser, 


21 06 


Nathaniel Tracey, 


134 92 


Andrew Belcher, 


58 33 


John Watson, 


32 73 


Thomas Gold, 


9 59 


Zebulan Richmond, 


23 05 


Samuel Bacon, 


16 73 


Thomas Adams, 


14 68 


Eleazer Burnham, 


33 83 


Elisha Watkins, 


26 51 


Theodore Hinsdale, 


90 19 


James Pease, 


34 97 


Roger Watkins, 


48 90 


Nathan Torrey, 


18 78 


Phinehas Watkins, 


25 52 


Samuel Watkins, 




Estate of Phinehas Watkins, 


21 00 


Jeremiah Haskell, 


44 86 


William Fletcher, Jr., 


12 39 


Nathan Barrett, 


20 11 


Charles Loomer, 


24 87 


Jacob Booth, 


18 02 



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David Moseley, 


$41 45 


Asa Parks, 


20 29 


Stephen Payne, 


16 80 


Elisha Curtiss, 


17 78 


Calvin Belcher, 


13 76 


Nathaniel Ballou, 


16 26 


David Brown, 


43 58 


Eleazer Cady, 


26 71 


Samuel Haskell, 


9 04 


Noah Benson, 


22 14 


Job Bestow, 


32 01 


Alford Curtiss, 


9 80 


Isaac Lyman, 


14 36 


Samuel Lyman, 


33 29 


Ebenezer Russ, 


20 98 


John Peirce, 


20 15 


Simpson Watkins, 


42 20 


Hubbard Goodrich, 


48 59 


Ralph Wheelock, 


66 31 


Abraham Blackman, 


15 74 


William Fletcher, 


36 49 


Houses, buildings and garden 


i 


Joshua Jackson, 


79 59 


occupied by Roger Watkins 


,30 88 


Benjamin Sawyer, Jr., 


11 63 


James Wing, 


40 90 


Lemuel Fuller, 


9 04 


Samuel Wing, 


30 80 


Bazeliel Hinkley, 


11 17 


Zebadiah Williams, 


21 98 


Oliver Staples, 


10 87 


Riley Williams, 


10 40 


Joseph Gasbee, 


35 21 


Abel Coye, 


6 99 


John Babcock, 


39 17 


Jedediah Russ, 


14 36 


Amasa Watkins, 


31 71 


Nathan Hibbard, 


111 25 


Asa Chamberlain, 


57 41 


Samuel Pitt, 


10 77 


Artemas Thompson, 


51 64 


Ephraim Hubbard, 


30 29 


Uzziel Gallup, 


24 56 


Benjamin Russ, 


9 04 


Stephen Bartlett, 


9 65 


Timothy Russ, 


24 27 


Ephraim Wing, 


11 99 


Archibald Olds, 


14 22 


Elias Babcock, 


16 26 


Theodore Hinsdate, Jr., 


27 61 


Seth Wing, 


36 34 


Granger, 


2 89 


Nathan Warner, 


78 72 


Samuel Wright, 


61 29 


Samuel Church, 


3 50 


John Wells, 


31 01 


Abiathar Seckell, 


14 67 


Asa Goodrich, 


14 01 


Nathan Nickerson, 


5 52 


Walter Sackett, 


22 93 


John Printer, 


9 04 


William Pierce, 


43 49 


Thomas Hibbard, 


9 04 


Ebenezer Curtiss, 


35 14 


Elisha Wing, 


21 83 


Isaiah Farnham, 


5 18 


Jesse Goodrich, 


41 38 


Amos Barrett, 


33 00 


Elkanah Jones, 


17 40 


Royal Noble, 


15 29 


John Hulburt, 


14 98 


Dan Haws, 


30 04 


Amasa Frost, 


27 45 


Rufus Tyler, 


60 31 


Epaphras Curtiss, 


51 63 


Amariah Wood, 


26 69 


John Hersey, 


9 04 


Joshua My rick, 


4 26 


John Putnam, 


39 48 


Howard & Colt, 


72 08 


Nicholas Bartlett, 


26 29 


— Byxbee, 


27 74 


Edmond Bridges, 


18 63 






NON-RESIDENTS, 


LOTS, AND NAMES OF OWNERS. 




No. 26, Mather, 110 acres, 


$5 03 


Brewster &Ladd, 30 acres, 


1 83 


Oliver Partridge, 600 acres, 


26 38 


Gideon Deming, 25 acres, 


1 52 


Chas. Goodrich, 400 acres, 


18 25 


Amos Haskins, 20 acres; 


1 52 


Watkins & Bacon, 150 acres, 


6 85 






The amount is $4230.97. 




Jxmes Wing, ) 








Job Bestow, > Assessors. 






Artemas Thompson, ) 





Partridgefield West Society, Feb. 21, 1799. 



Original Members of the Present Parish. 



January 13, 1834. 

Voted — That said Society do now hereby 
Parish, to be known as and called in all times to come, The First Congre 
gational Society in Hinsdale. 



organize themselves into a 



Allen, Thomas 
Adams, John 
Allen, James 
Allen, Charles 
Bixbee, Solomon 
Barker, Thomas 
Brown, Obadiah 
Barrett, Archie 
Barrett, Amos 
Bestow, Frederick 
Bullard, Lemuel 
Barrows, Theodore 
Barker, Asahel 
Barrett, Haskell 
Baker, James H. 
Bodurthy, Harvey L. 
Cady, Abial 
Colt, Oliver P. 
Crossett, Chester 
Curtiss, Anson 
Clark, William 
Clark, Watson 
Curtiss, Epaphras 
Curtiss, Frederick 
Chapin, Festus 
Dole, Beniamin 
Deming, Cephas 
Eames, Daniel 
Emmons, Monroe 
Emmons, Noadiah 
Francis, Festus 
Francis, John 
Goodrich, Elijah H. 
Holland William 



Huntington, Simon 
Hinsdale, William 
Hawley, William A. 
Holland, Stephen 
Hinsdale, David M. 
Hinsdale, Henry 
Haskins, James 
Kittredge, Abel 
Kittredge, Benjamin 
Knight, Asher 
Loomis, Salmon 
Lemley, Solomon 
Ladd, Lathrop 
Lyman, Isaac 
Lewis, Albert 
Leland, Moses 
Merriman, Daniel 
Morgan, Julius 
Milliken, Robert 
Merrill, John 
Moody, Cotton 
Merriman, Addison 
Merriman, Hiram 
Merriman, Henry 
Morgan, Adams 
Morgan, Edwin 
Morgan, Sylvester 
Mack, William 
Nicholson, Ambrose 
Payne, Ebenezer L. 
Post, Ichabod 
Parsons. Lemuel 
Pierce, John 



Putnam, Henry 
Plunkett, Charles H. 
Pierce, Erastus 
Pierce, Ashley 
Pierce, Warren 
Payne, Lyman 
Post, Jeremiah H. 
"Richards, Hiram 
F. Reynolds, Hezekiah L. 
Robinson, Alva 
Street, Caleb M. 
Street, Horace 
Snow, Charles 
Spencer, Seldon 
Tyler, Amos 
Tinker, Russell 
Tracy, Walter 
Tracy, Charles K. 
Wing, Elisha 
Wing, James 
Wentworth, Daniel 
Wright, Samuel 
Watkins, Luther 
Washburn, Abraham 
White, Joseph 
Watkins, Francis 
Warner, Daniel N. 
Wentworth, Elijah 
Wentworth, David 
Watkins, Riley 
Wright, Samuel S. 
Warner, Benjamin E. 
Watkins, Samuel 



MANUAL 



-OF THE- 



Congregational Church, 



-OF- 



HINSDALE. MASS. 



1895. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



The first settlement in what is now Hinsdale was commenced 
in 1763. Originally this town belonged to Partridgefleld, now 
Peru, and to Dalton. The inhabitants were connected with 
these two towns in their religious privileges. In 1795 the set- 
tlers were incorporated as a parish by the name of the West 
Parish of Partridgefleld. During that year Rev. Theodore 
Hinsdale became a citizen of the place and was instrumental, 
in connection with Deacon Richard Starr, in organizing the 
Congregational church, which was formed December 17, 1795. 

The number of original members was twenty-three — thirteen 
males and ten females. 

During the first seven years the church was without a settled 
pastor and was supplied with preaching by Mr. Hinsdale and" 
Rev. John Leland, then pastor in Peru. 

The services were at first held in private houses, in the school 
house and occasionally in barns. In March, 1796, steps were 
taken toward building the present meeting house, which was 
dedicated on October 17th. 1799. 



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PASTORS, 



SETTLED SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OP THE CHURCH. 



Caleb Knight. 
Ordained April 28, 1802. Dismissed April 9, 1816. 

William A. Hawley. 
Ordained July 1.6, 1817. Dismissed January 12, 1841. 

Seth W. Banister. 
Ordained June 2, 1841. Dismissed April 29, 1846. 

Edward Taylor. 
Ordained February 2, 1847. Dismissed October 29, 1850. 

Perkins K. Clark. 

Installed June 15, 1852. Dismissed October 22, 1855. 

Kinsley Twining. 
Ordained August 25, 1858. Dismissed Febuary 1, 1864. 

Ephraim Flint, Jr. 
Ordained September 19, 1867. Died November 28, 1882. 

James H. Laird. 
Installed July 10, 1883. 



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DEACONS. 



Richard Starr, 
Elijah H. Goodrich, 
Nehemiah Frost, 
Isaac Bassett. 
William Hinsdale, 
James Porter, 
William Clark, 
Russell Tinker, 
Edward T. Nash, 
Lyman White, 
Clark Prince, 

Charles J. Kittredge, 

Milo M. Wentworth, 
George T. Plunkett, 



j Chosen February 19, 1796. 

( Died, 1805. 

j Chosen January 26, 1802. 

( Died December 15, 1826. 

j Chosen April 28, 1803. 

I Removed from town February, 1806. 

j Chosen January 19, 1807. 

} Removed from town, Feb'y 10, 1833. 

j Chosen April 28, 1827. 

( Resigned April 29, 1836. 

j Chosen April 28, 1827. 

{ Removed from town April 13, 1834. 

j Chosen October 17, 1832. 
( Resigned January 10, 1856. 

j Chosen May 4, 1836. 

1 Died November 13, 1844. 

j Chosen January 22, 1845. 

( Died November 4, 1860. 

j Chosen January 10, 1856. 

I Removed from town March 13, 1859. 

j Chosen May 4, 1860. 

( Resigned January 1, 1870. 

j Chosen May 4, 1860. 

( Resigned January 3, 1895. 

Chosen January 1, 1870. 

Chosen January 10, 1895. 



CHURCH CLERKS. 



Deacon E. H. Goodrich, 

Oliver P. Colt, 

Rev. S. W. Banister, 
Rev. Edward Taylor, 
W. W. Adams, 
Rev. P. K. Clark, 

Theodore Barrows, 

Rev. Kinsley Twining, 
Rev. Ephraim Flint, Jr., 

William A. Taylor, 

James Hosmer. 



Chosen July 3, 1816. 

j Chosen January 12, 1841. 
I Resigned September 5, 1841. 

Acting while pastor. 

Acting while pastor. 

Chosen October 24, 1850. 

Acting while pastor. 
j Chosen October 20, 1855. 
( Resigned November 4, 1870. 

Acting while pastor. 
Acting in 1868, '69, 70. 

j Chosen November 4, 1870. 
I Resigned May 5, 1883. 
Chosen May 5, 1883. 



STANDING RULES. 



MEMBERSHIP. 



1. All persons wishing to unite with this church, either 
upon profession or upon letter of recommendation from some 
other church, shall make application to the standing committee. 
Those approved by the committee are propounded at least two 
weeks previously to admission (rejected candidates have the 
privilege of appeal to the church). On their making a public 
profession of their faith and recognizing covenant obligations 
they are by vote of the church admitted to its fellowship. 
Admissions ordinarily occur at communion seasons. 

2. It is expected that members of other churches who may 
wish to commune with this church for more than one year will 
request a removal of their connection to us unless good and 
sufficient reasons for delay are given to the church committee. 

3. When members of this church request letters of dismis- 
sion and recommendation to other churches, their request shall 
be publicly propounded to the church at least two weeks before 
the vote granting such requests is taken. 

4. When members remove from this to other places, with 
the expectation of residing there, it shall be their duty to re- 
move their relation within one year; and if they do not, this 
church will not be holden to give letters of dismission and 
recommendation, unless good and sufficient reasons are given, 
why it has not been done. 

5. Any member so removing and failing to ask for such 
letter, or having received one and failed to present it, as before 
provided, shall be notified by the clerk of the church of his or 
her duty under the rules, by written notice sent to his or her 
last known place of residence, and requested to act in the mat- 



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ter or give reasons for wishing to retain membership in this 
church. 

If the member does not comply with such request, and gives 
no reasons satisfactory to the church for not complying, the 
church may, at any regular meeting, withdraw from such mem- 
ber watch and care, and suspend his or her name from the reg- 
ister until satisfactory reasons are given for restoring it. But 
no such action shall be taken unless written notice has been 
sent as before to such member two weeks at least before the 
meeting, that consideration is to be had thereat upon such 
withdrawal and suspension. 

A list of members so suspended shall be kept upon the reg- 
ister of the church, but their names shall not be published in 
the printed catalogues of the present members of the church. 

In case an absent member fails to make any response accord- 
ing to the above conditions, he shall, after two years, be no 
longer considered as having a membership in this church and 
his name shall be stricken from the roll. 

6. The clerk shall give to every candidate for admission to 
the church a printed copy of the Standing Rules of the Church, 
and call special attention to the rules relating to change of 
residence. 

OFFICERS. 

1. The spiritual and more permanent officers of this church 
are a pastor and two or more deacons. The deacons shall be 
chosen for a term of five years. 

2. The pastor shall be a member of this church and shall 
preside, when present, at all the meetings of the church. 

3. The deacons shall provide for and assist in the adminis- 
tration of the Lord's supper ; shall inquire into the wants of 
necessitous members and contribute of the charities of the 
church to their relief, and shall assist the pastor in visiting the 
sick. 

4. One of the deacons shall be chosen treasurer, annually, 
by the church. It is his duty to take charge of all funds be- 



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longing to the church, and to dispose of the same according to 
the votes of the church, and to make an annual report at the 
annual meeting. 

5. The standing committee shall consist of the pastor, the 
deacons and one other member of the church, to be chosen each 
year at the annual meeting. 

It shall be the duty of this committee to examine all candi- 
dates for membership, to make preliminary inquiries in cases 
of discipline and generally to attend to such business as relates 
to the welfare of the church. 

6. A clerk shall be chosen at each annual meeting who 
shall keep the records of the church and make an annual report 
of the same. 

MEETINGS. 

1. The annual meeting of the church is held near the begin- 
ning of the year on such day as the committee shall appoint. 

2. Business may be done at any regular church service and 
a special meeting may be called any time when the standing 
committee may deem it expedient. A meeting may also be 
called at the written application of five members to the officers 
'of the church. Seven members shall constitute a quorum. 

ORDINANCES. 

1. The sacrament of the Lord's supper is administered on 
the first Sabbaths in January, March, May, July, September, 
and November. 

2. A contribution is taken at each communion season. 

3. The church, through their pastor, cordially invite those 
who are in good and regular standing as members of other 
evangelical churches, to partake with them at the Lord's table. 

4. Baptism is administered to those not previously baptized, 
at the time of their admission to the church, and to children on 
the Sabbath, or at the preparatory lecture, which is ordinarily 
on Thursday evening preceding each communion season. 



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CHURCH CHARITIES. 



The church and society make annual collections for the 
American Board of Foreign Missions, Congregational Home 
Missionary Society, American Missionary Association, Seamen's 
Friend Society, and the American Bible Society ; and a con- 
tribution is made upon the first Sunday in each month, which 
is divided among the various benevolent societies of the Con- 
gregational body. 

DISCIPLINE. 

1. The church has at several times voted, that in all cases 
of discipline, it will be governed by the directions in the 
eighteenth chapter of Matthew. 

2. They recommend that, before any steps are taken in the 
regular course of discipline, the complaints be specifically made 
out in writing. 

3. This church considers immoral conduct, breach of express 
covenant vows, and avowed disbelief of any of their articles of 
faith, as offences subject to their censure. 

4. ~No confession for an oifence shall be exhibited in public, 
unless it has first been laid before the church for their appro- 
bation; and if the offence be of a public nature, or has become 
a matter of public notoriety, the confession shall be made before 
the church and congregation. 

THE CREED. 

Being the creed prepared under the authority of the General 
Congregational Council of 1883. 

I. We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of 
heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. 

And in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord, who is of one 
substance with the Father. 

And in the Holy Spirit, who is sent from the Father and 
Son, and who together with the Father and Son is worshipped 
and glorified. 



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II. We believe that the Providence of God, by which he 
executes his eternal purposes in the government of the world, 
is in and over all events ; yet so that the freedom and responsi- 
bility of man are not impaired, and sin is the act of the crea- 
ture alone. 

. III. We believe that man was made in the image of God 
that he might know, love, and obey God, and enjoy him for- 
ever; that our first parents by disobedience fell under the right- 
eous condemnation of God ; and that all men have sinned in 
like manner, and that there is no salvation from the guilt and 
power of sin except through God's redeeming grace. 

IV. We believe that God would have all men return to 
him ; that to this end he has made himself known, not only 
through the works of nature, the course of his providence, and 
the consciences of men, but also through supernatural revela- 
tions made especially to a chosen people, and above all, when 
the fullness of time was come, through Jesus Christ his Son. 

V. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New 
Testaments are the record of God's revelations of himself in 
the work of redemption ; that they were written by men under 
the special guidance of the Holy Spirit ; that they are able to 
make wise unto salvation ; and that they constitute the authori- 
tative standard by which religious teaching and human con- 
duct are to be regulated and judged. 

"VI. We believe that the love of God to sinful men has 
found its highest expression in the redemptive work of his 
Son; who became man, uniting his divine nature with our 
human nature in one person ; who was tempted like other men, 
yet without sin; who, by his humiliation, his holy obedience, 
his sufferings, his death on the cross, and his resurrection, be- 
came a perfect Redeemer; whose sacrifice of himself for the 
sins of the world declares the righteousness of God, and is the 
sole and sufficient ground of forgiveness and of reconciliation 
with him. 

VII. We believe that Jesus Christ, after he had risen from 



134 

the dead, ascended into heaven, where, as the one Mediator be- 
tween God and man, he carries forward his work of saviug 
men ; that he sends the Holy Spirit to convict them of sin, and 
to lead them to repentance and faith ; and that those who 
through renewing grace turn to righteousness, and trust in 
Jesus Christ as their Redeemer, receive for his sake the for- 
giveness of their sins, and are made the children of God. 

VIII. We believe that those who are thus regenerated and 
justified grow in sanctified character through fellowship with 
Christ, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and obedience to the 
truth ; that a holy life is the fruit and evidence of saving faith ; 
and that the believer's hope of continuance in such a life is in 
the preserving grace of God. 

IX. We believe that Jesus Christ came to establish among 
men the kingdom of God, the reign of truth and love, righteous- 
ness and peace; that to Jesus Christ, the Head of this king- 
dom, Christians are directly responsible in faith and conduct; 
and that to him all have immediate access without mediatorial 
or priestly intervention. 

X. We believe that the Church of Christ, invisible and 
spiritual, comprises all true believers, whose duty it is to asso- 
ciate themselves in churches, for the maintenance of worship, 
for the promotion of spiritual growth and fellowship, and for 
the conversion of men ; that these churches, under the guidance 
of the Holy Scriptures and in fellowship with one another, 
may determine — each for itself — their organization, statements 
of belief, and forms of worship; may appoint and set apart 
their own ministers, and should co-operate in the work which 
Christ has committed to them for the furtherance of the gospel 
throughout the world. 

XL We believe in the observance of the Lord's day as a 
day of holy rest and worship; in the ministry of the Word ; and 
in the two sacraments which Christ has appointed for his 
church: Baptism, to be administered to believers and their 
children, as the sign of cleansing from sin and of reception into 



135 

the fold of Christ; and the Lord's supper, as a symbol of his 
atoning death, a seal of its efficacy, and a means whereby he 
confirms and strengthens the spiritual union and communion of 
believers with himself. 

XII. We believe in the ultimate prevalence of the king- 
dom of Christ over all the earth ; in the glorious appearing of 
the great God and our Saviour, Jesus Christ; in the resurrec- 
tion of the dead; and in a final judgment, the issues of which 
are everlasting punishment and everlasting life. 

Do you thus profess and believe? Now then you are pre- 
pared to enter into covenant with God and this church. 

THE COVENANT. 

What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward 
me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name 
of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the 
presence of all his people. 

Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will 
I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But who- 
soever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before 
my Father which is in heaven. 

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and 
with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 

Dearly beloved, called of God to be his children through 
Jesus Christ our Lord, you are here that, in the presence of 
God and his people, you may enter into the fellowship and 
communion of his church. You do truly repent of your sins; 
you heartily receive Jesus Christ as your crucified Saviour and 
risen Lord ; you consecrate yourselves unto God and your life 
to his service; you accept his Word as your law, and his Spirit 
as your comforter and guide ; and trusting in his grace to con- 
firm and strengthen you in all goodness, you promise to do 
God's holy will, and to walk with this church in the truth and 
peace of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Do you thus enter into covenant with God and this church ? 



136 

(Then should baptism be administered to those who have not 
been baptized. Then should those rise who would unite with 
the church by letter. To them the minister should say:) 

Confessing the Lord whom we unitedly worship, you do now 
renew your self-consecration, and join with us cordially in this, 
our Christian faith and covenant. 

(The members of the church present should rise.) 

We welcome you into our fellowship. We promise to 
watch over you with Christian love. God grant that, loving 
and being loved, serving and being served, blessing and being 
blessed, we may be prepared, while we dwell together on earth, 
for the perfect communion of the saints in heaven. 

"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead 
our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the 
blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every 
good work to do his will, working in you that which is well- 
pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ ; to whom be glory 
for ever and ever. Amen." 



Present Officers and Members. 



Rev. James H. Laird, Pastor, 

Milo M. Went worth, ) n 
George T. Pltjnkett, \ 1Jeacon8 ' 

W. A. Taylor, Church Committee. 

James Hosmer, Clerk. 



RESIDENT MEMBERS. 



Abbott, John 
Abbott, Mrs John 
Ascha, Mrs. C. G. 
Ascha, Mary Bell 
Barker, Thomas F. 
Barker, Mrs. Thomas F. 
Barker, John B. 
Barker, Mary E. 
Barrows, Celestia 
Bartlett, Mrs. Peter 
Bartlett, Charles C. 
Barnes, Mrs. Henry M. 
Benson, Mrs. D. F. 
Benson, Lillie A. 
Beals, Martha R. 
Beverly, Edwin C. 
Beverly, Mrs. E. C. 
Bill, Mrs. Orsemus 
Bingham, Mrs. Silas 
Birmingham, Mrs. Samuel G. 
Bowen, Mrs. J. Clinton 
Brague, Mrs. George W. 
Bridges, Mrs. Luther W. 
Bristol, Adaline L. 
Brown, Mrs. John 
Bull, Frank 
Bull, Mrs. Frank 
Bull, Ella L. 
Burdick, Mrs. A. C. 
Carr, Mrs. Henry 
Carr, Celia E, 
Cheeseman, Mrs. Edward 
Clark, Mrs. William 
Clark, Jane L. 
Clark, Edward W. 



Clark, Mrs. Eben C. 
Clark, Rev. Edson L. 
Clark, Mrs. Edson L. 
Cole, J. Silas 
Cole, Fred W. 
Cole, Charles, Jr. 
Converse, Ortensia L. 
Converse, Mrs. Chapin 
Crossett, John L. 
Crossett, Mrs. John L. 
Cook, Franklin B. 
Davison, John R. 
Dresser, Mrs. S. P. 
Dresser, Arthur J. 
Dresser, Angie M. 
Eldredge, Henry B. 
Eldredge, Mrs. H. B. 
Emmons, Harris G. 
Felton, Mrs. J. W. 
Francis, Lysander M. 
Franklin, Julia 
Franklin, Emily J. 
Franklin, Rose H. 
Frissell, Thomas A. 
Frissell, Mrs. T. A. 
Goodrich, E. H. 
Goodrich, Mrs. E. H. 
Gray, William J. 
Gray, Mrs. W. J. 
Hillier, Mrs. A. N. 
Hosmer, James 
Hosmer, Mrs. James 
Jackson, Mrs. Haven 
Kittredge, Charles J. 
Kittredge, Mrs. C. J, 



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Kittredge, Elizabeth P. 
Kittredge, Sarah M. 
Kittredge, James B. 
Knight, Mrs. Warren 
Laird, Rev. James H. 
Laird, Mrs. J. H. 
Laird, Arthur T. 
Laird. Fannie M. 
Mack, Lyman 
Morgan, Mrs. Edwin 
Morgan, Charles A. 
Morgan, Mrs. Charles A. 
Parmelee, William J. 
Parmelee, Mrs. W. J. 
Parsons, Peter 
Parsons, Mrs. Peter 
Parsons, Lucy M. 
Payne, L. M. 
Payne, Mrs. L. M. 
Pierce, Mrs. C. C. 
Pierce, Aid en H. 
Pierce, Mary Elmer 
Pierce, Mrs. C. A. 
Plunkett, Mrs. Thomas K. 
Plunkett, George T. 
Plunkett, Mrs. G. T. 
Plummer, Mrs. George B. 
Pye, Mrs. A. R. 
Raymond. Mrs. D. G. 
Robinson, Mrs. C. C. 
Robinson, Irving 
Robinson, Nellie R. 
Rossiter, Mrs. Clarissa 
Roth, Mrs. Harriet P. 
Roth, Hattie A. P. 
Sawyer, Oliver J. 
Sayers, James L. 
Seagrave, Mary C. 
Seagrave, Rev. James C. 
Sherman. Louie L. 
Sherman, Mrs. Louie L. 
Smith, John R. 
Smith, Mrs. J. R. 
Solomon, Etta M. 
Solomon, Walter C. 
Spring, Mrs. George E. 
Spring, Charlotte 
Stickney, Ella G. 
Storm, Azariah S. 



Storm, Mrs. A. S. 
Storm, Mary Payne 
Storm, Emily Z. 
Storm, Katie K. 
Stowell, Milo 
Stowell, Marion 
Stowell, Myron C. 
Stowell, Mrs. M.C. 
Stowell, Melvern H. 
Taylor, William A. 
Taylor, Mrs. W. A. 
Taylor, Hannah D. 
Taylor, Charles P. 
Taylor, Sarah P. 
Taylor, Mabel E. 
Tolman, Sarah A. 
Tolman, Mary 
Tremain, Mrs. Edwin 
Tuttle, Charlotte E. 
Tucker, Mrs. W. L. 
Warriner, Mrs. Francis 
Watkins, Mrs. Samuel 
Watkins, Henry W. 
Watkins, George M. 
Watkins, Mrs. G. M. 
Watkins, Mrs. Eugene C. 
Watkins, Lucelia M. 
Watkins, Mrs. John 
Watkins, Mrs. Monroe 
Watkins, Mrs. Alonzo 
Watkins, Mrs. W. D. 
Watkins, Welcome H. 
Wentworth, Milo M. 
Wentworth, Mrs. M. M. 
Wentworth, Edward F. 
Wentworth, Mrs. E. F. 
Wentworth, Arthur M. 
Wentworth, Ada L. 
West, Charles W. 
West, Herbert 
White, Simon H. 
White, Mrs. S. H. 
Whitman, Mrs. N. B. 
Whitman, Levi L. 
Whitman, Mrs. Levi L. 
Wheeler, Arthur S. 
Wilson, Minnie B. 
Winslow, Mrs. H. L. 
Woodburn, John B. 



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NON-RESIDENT MEMBERS. 



Abraham, George 
Archibald, Mrs. Alice M. 
Barker, Mrs. Thomas 
Barrett, Charles D. 
Barrett, Mrs. James 
Benson, William H. 
Bullis, George P. 
Curtis, Sarah 
Curtiss, Mrs. Edwin 
Crane, Mrs. George 
Crosier, Mrs. Julia 
Davison, Walter F. 
Day, William I. 
Edson, Minnie R. 
Edson, Franklin W. 
Emmons, Mrs. Noadiah 
Fay, Edward E. 
Fay, Mrs. E. E. 
Griswold, Mrs. George 
Goodrich, Mrs. D. M. 
Gaunt, John 
Gaunt, Mrs. J. 
Gloyd, Mahlon 



Gloyd, Mrs. Mahlon 
Goodrich, Rev. Chauncey 
Goodrich, Washburn A. 
Goodrich, Mrs. W. A. 
Houston, Mrs. Emerson 
Johnson, Mrs. Baxter 
Lyman, Mrs. C. T. 
Mason, Mrs. H. A. 
Mecum, Albert R. 
Mecum,. Charles R. 
Mecum, Mrs. C. R. 
Parsons, Henry C. 
Parish, Mrs. E. H. 
Pierce, Elizabeth A. 
Pye, Thomas F. 
Richards, Mrs. Albertus 
Smith, Mrs. Martha E. 
Stowell, Sidney S. 
Tower, Charles B. 
Tower, Mrs. C. B. 
Tracy, Mrs. Charles K. 
Wentworth, Clara E, 
Wood, Mrs. George E. 



Residents — men, 
Residents — women, 

Non-residents — men, 
Non-residents — women, 

Total, 
Hinsdale, Dec. 31st, 1895. 



SUMMARY. 


58 
111 


1RQ 




19 

28 


J.U57 

47 







216 



The Centennial List of Members. 



WITH TEAR OF ADMISSION, DISMISSION, DEATH AND AGE. 



Note.— The Clerk of the Church desires information that will assist in completing 
the record of dismissions, death and age of former members. 

"A," denotes that the member was dropped from the roll by his or her request, or 
for other reasons ; " L," admitted by letter from another church ; "W," withdrew to 
some other denomination without taking a letter. Numbers out of the regular suc- 
cession refer to admission a second time, and also to married name. Cases of disci- 
pline are on the church records only. 













Approximate Date 




No. 


1795. 


Dismissed. 


op Death and 


Age. 


L 


1. 


Rev. Theodore Hinsdale, 






Dec. 1818. 


80 


L 


2. 


Richard Starr, 






Feb. 1805. 


87 


L 


3. 


Ephraim Hubbard, 






May 1810. 


63 


L 


4. 


Elizur Burnham, 






Mch. 1811. 


78" 


L 


5. 
6. 

7. 
8. 


Nathan Hibbard, 
Joseph Skinner, 
Jonathan Skinner, 
Giddeon Peck, 






1825. 


88 


L 


9. 


Seth Wing, 






Feb. 1812. 


67 


L 


10. 


Asa Goodrich, 










L 


11. 
12. 
13. 


Nehemiah Frost, 
Benjamin Sawyer. 
Asa Parks. 


Feb. 


1806. 


June 1850. 


83 




14. 


Mrs. Anne Hinsdale-Theodore, 






Mch. 1817. 


69 




15. 


Sarah Sawyer. 












16. 


Elizabeth Babcock. 










L 


17. 


Mrs. Anne Goodrich-Asa. 












18. 


Mrs. Rebecca Frost- Amasa, 


Feb. 


1806. 


Oct. 1823. 


55 




19. 


Priscilla Parks. 












20. 


Jerusha Skinner. 












21. 


Hulda Wing-Seth, 






Oct. 1824. 


78 


L 


22. 


Mrs. Hannah Hubbard-Ephraim, 






Jan. 1843. 


89 


L 


23. 
24. 


Mrs. Elizabeth Frost-Nehemiah. 

1796. 

Mrs. Pheobe Hibbard-Nathan. 


Feb. 


1806. 


Sept. 1840. 

* 


72 


L 


25. 


Mrs. Peck-Giddeon. 












26. 


Widow Lucy Loonier, 






July 1820. 


60 




27. 


Nancy Hinsdale, 
1797. 


Aug. 


1834. 


May 1851. 


82 




28. 


William Burnham, 






Sept. 1850. 


83 




29. 


Moses Yeomans, 






1814. 


- 




30. 


Mrs. Eunice Babcock-John. 












31. 


Mrs. Lucy Pease-James. 











Sept. 1807. 


79 


Sept. 1823. 


61 


Jan. 1835. 


78 


Oct. 1825. 


69 


Jan. 1810. 


40 


Dec. 1826. 


69 


Mch. 1840. 


72 


Feb. 1833. Aug. 1849. 


84 


Nov. 1802. 


31 



141 

Approximate Date 
No. 1800. Dismissed, of Age and Death. 

L 32. Benajah Jones, 

L 33. Mrs. Tabitha Meacham-John, 

L 34. Elisha Wing, 

L 35. Mrs. Anna Wing-Elisha, 

1801. 

L 36. Mrs. Azubah Jones-Eli, 

L 37. Deacon Elijah H. Goodrich, 

L 38. Mrs. Mabel Goodrich-E. H., 

L 39. Isaac Bassett, 

L 40. Mrs. Azubah Bassett-Isaac, 

1802. 

L 41. Rev. Caleb Knight, Apr. 1816. Oct. 1854. 83 

L 42. Elizabeth Hurd. 

43. Mrs. Mary Wood-Amariah, Apr. 1816. 

L 44. Mrs. Jemima Jones-Benajah, Feb. 1805. 74 

L 45. Mrs. Anna Knight-Caleb, Oct. 1817. Feb. 1858. 79 

L 46. Daniel Wentworth, Jan. 1840. 83 

L 47. Mrs. Susanna Wentworth-Daniel, May 1827. 70 

L 48. Mrs. Hannah Witter- Joseph, Jr. 

49. Elisha Carrier. 

50. Mrs. Mary Carrier-Elisha. 

51. John Halbert. 

52. Mrs. Asenath Halbert-John. 

53. Mrs. Adosha Post-Ichabod, 

54. Mrs. Prudence Adams-John, 
L 55. Deacon Rufus Marsh, 
L 56. Mrs. Mary Marsh-Rufus, 
L 57. Jabez Whitney, 
L 58. Mrs. Experience Whitney-Jabez, 
L 59. Mrs. Hephzibah Thompson-Artemas, 

1803. 

L 60. Asa Cady, 

L 61. Mrs. Martha Cady- Asa, 

L 62. Miss Esther Cady. 

L 63. Mrs. Mary Frost-Amasa, Sr., 

L 64. Simon Huntington, 

L 65. Mrs. Priscilla Huntington-Simon, 

L 66. John Meeker, 

L 67. Mrs. Mary Bassett-Isaac, 

68. Job Bestow, 

69. Mrs. Lydia Wing-James, 

70. Mrs. Philura Putnam-John, 

71. Lucy Starr, 

1804. 

72. Sarah Matthews, 
L 73. Elnathan Sanderson, 
L 74. Mrs. Sarah Sanderson-Elnathan, 
L 75. Caleb N. Street, 
L 76. Mrs. Bathsheba Street-Caleb N., 
L 77. Mrs. Hannah Wing-Elnathan. 

78. David Moseley, 

79. Mrs. Rebecca Moseley-David. 







Oct. 


1808.- 


36 






Apr. 


1853. 
1813. 


82 
55 


Sep. 


1825. 




1833. 


71 


Dec. 


1819. 


Jan. 


1825. 


74 






Nov. 


1805. 


51 


3, 




Feb. 


1826. 


54 






Dec. 


1826. 


72 






July 


1823. 


63 






Oct. 


1815. 


86 






Aug. 


1836. 


74 






Jan. 


1846. 


85 




1805. 








Feb. 


1833. 


Oct. 


1839. 


64 






Apr. 


1813. 


52 






Oct. 


1840. 


79 






Mar. 


1836. 
1803. 


66 




1806. 








Sep. 


1825. 








Sep. 


1825. 








Oct. 


1836. 












May 


1818. 


47 






Nov. 


1804. 


42 



142 



Approximate Date 





No. 


1804. 


Dismissed. 


of Age and Death. 




80. 


Mrs. Kesiah Payne-Ebenezer, 






Aug. 


1854. 


88 




81. 


Mrs. Susanna Dresser-Isaac, 














82. 


Mrs. Polly Holland- William, 

1805. 

Septimeus Witter. 


Aug. 


1836. 










83. 














84. 


Mrs. Anna Witter-Septimeus. 














85. 


Eunice Geere. 














86. 


Mrs. Abigail Parsons-Lemuel, 

1806. 

Chester Moody, 






May 


1858. 


94 


L 


87. 






June 1826. 


46 


L 


88. 


Mrs. Nancy B. Moody-Chester, 


Feb. 


1830. 


Oct. 


1855. 


74 




89. 


Thomas Matthews, 






Oct. 


1824. 


56 


W 


90. 


Samuel Wing, 


July 


1813. 


Dec. 


1863. 


90 


W 


91. 


Mrs. Abigail Wing-Samuel, 

1807. 
Mrs. Caroline Pierce-Asa, 

1808. 
Elisha Leonard, 


July 


1813. 


Oct. 


1824. 


47 


L 


92. 






July 


1862. 


83 


L 


93. 


Dec. 


1821. 








L 


94. 


Mrs. Mary Leonard-Elisha. 














95. 


Lemuel Parsons, Jr., 






Apr. 


1867. 


82 




96. 


Walter Tracy, 


Jan. 


1843. 


June 1870. 


85 




97. 


Ebenezer Payne, Jr., 




1815. 


Dec. 


1868. 


84 




98. 


Leonard Dresser. 














99. 


Samuel Matthews, 






Dec. 


1814. 


44 




100. 


Mrs. Lydia Matthews-Samuel, 


Sep. 


1823. 


Feb. 


1857. 


78 




101. 


Salmon Bixbee, 


Apr. 


1844. 


Dec. 


1864. 


89 




102. 


Mrs. Betsy R. Bixbee-Salmon, 


Apr. 


1844. 


Apr. 


1856. 


75 




103. 


Asa Pierce, 






Sep. 


1819. 


40 




104. 


Joseph Knight. 

1809. 

Widow Mary Benson, 














105. 






May 


1820. 


72 




106. 


Mrs. Susanna Watson-John, 


Jan. 


1820. 










107. 


Joseph Bellows, 






Apr. 


1816. 


51 




108. 


Philena Francis, 




1815. 


Feb. 


1848. 




L 


109. 


Mrs. Delight Payne-Ebenezer, Jr. 

1810. 
Mrs. Polly Crary-Christopher, 


> 


1815. 








L 


110. 


Feb. 


1819. 








L 


111. 


Mrs. Mary Colt-Oliver P, , 
1811. 
, Mrs. Josiah Pomeroy, 








1864. 


77 


WL112, 


Sep. 


1823. 








WL 113, 


, Mrs. Ruth Pomeroy-Josiah, 




1823. 










114. 


William Peirce, 

1812. 

Samuel Watkins, 






Feb. 


1824. 


70 




115. 






May 


1813. 


66 




116. 


Widow Monika Richards, 






Dec. 


1831. 


64 




117. 


Mrs. Mercy Tracy-Walter, 






Apr. 


1831. 


48 




118. 


Mrs. Phimelia Otis-Shubal, 






Feb. 


1819. 


39 




119. 


Lucy Warren. 














120. 


Polly Parsons, 






Nov. 


1871. 


79 




121. 


Mrs. Eunice Kittredge-Dr. Abel, 






May 


1852. 


76- 



143 



No. 1814. Dismissed. 

L 122. William Worthington, July 1819. 

L 123. Mrs. Sarah Worthington- William, July 1819. 
1816. 



Approximate Date 
op Death and Age. 



L 124. 

125. 
126. 
127. 
128. 
129. 



L 

L 
L 
L 



130. 
131. 
132. 
133. 
134. 
135. 



136. 

137. 

138. 

139. 

140. 

141. 

142. 
L 143. 
L 144. 

145. 

146. 

147. 

148. 

149. 

150. 

151. 

152. 

153. 

154. 

155. 

156. 

157. 

158. 

159. 
W160. 
L 161. 

W162. 
W163. 
L 164. 

165. 

166. 

167. 

168. 



Dec. 1818. 



L 
L 



Rev. William A. Hawley, 

1817. 
Julius Bartlett, 
William Clark, 
Timothy McElwain, 
Mrs. Zilpha McElwain-Timothy, 
Daniel Merriman, 

1817. 

Mrs. Sally T. Merriman-Daniel, 
Mrs. Rebecca Payne-Daniel, Sep. 1834. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Post-Ichabod, Mar. 1827. 

Mrs. Debby A. Hawley-Rev. W. A., Aug. 1841. 
Samuel Wales, May 1829. 

Mrs. Esther Wales-Samuel, May 1829. 

1818. 

Selden Spencer, 

Mrs. Lucy Spencer-Selden, 

Abner Wing, 

Lucinda Wentworth, 

Mrs. Abigail Francis-Festus, 

Zeri Wing, 

John Adams, Jr., 

Andrew Phelps. 

Mrs. Nancy Phelps-Andrew. 

Abigail Loomis, 

Eli Adams, 

Addison Merriman, 

Miss Martha Merriman, 

Rebecca Wright, 

Electa Babcock. 

Sally Peirce, 

Roxanna Loomis, 

Prudence Adams, 

Lucy Huntington, 

Elizabeth Curtiss-Epaphras, 

Sophia Putnam, 

Dolly Hathaway, 

Fanny Huntington, 

Malinda McElwain, 

Obadiah McElwain, 

Mrs. Nancy McElwain-David, 

1819. 

Samuel Spencer, 

Eliza Parkis, 

Mrs. Asenath Burnham- William, 

William Hinsdale, 

Widow Mary Loomis, 

Mrs. Sarah Porter, 

James Porter, 



Jan. 1841. May 1854. 66 

Oct. 1829. 

Mar. 1870. 82 

Nov. 1825. 53 

June 1832. 

July 1835. Jan. 1850. 73 

Nov. 1823. 52 



Sep. 
Apr. 



1838. 
1858. 



Mar. 1827. 
Dec. 1841. 



Nov. 1853 

. May 1875. 

Aug. 1834. Mar. 1858. 

June 1824. Jan. 1839. 



68 
69 



37 
52 

58 
87 
65 
44 



Jan. 1819. 28 

1834. 1876. 79 

Mar. 1835. Aug. 1863. 62 

Apr. 1856. Dec. 1861. 58 

Nov. 1832. 

July 1824. 34 

May 1827. 31 

Mar. 1835. Apr. 1853. 83 

Aug. 1828. 27 

Mar. 1825. 58 

Sep. 1820. Apr. 1871. 73 

1825. 1884. 84 

Oct. 1828. Aug. 1840. 41 

Dec. 1822. 

Dec. 1842. 

June 1824. 

Mar. 1832. 

Mar. 1822. 

Nov. 1851. 77 

Oct-. 1860. 70 

Dec. 1840. 80 

Apr. 1834. July 1851. 91 

Apr. 1834. Oct. 1864. 72 



144 

Approximate Date 
No. 1819. Dismissed, of Death and Age. 

L 169. Mrs. Lurinda Porter- James, Apr. 1834. May 1874. 80 

L 170. Harvey White, Mar. 1832. Dec. 1868. 74 

171. Mrs. Sally White-Harvey, Mar. 1832. Jan. 1861. 64 

1820. 
John H. Russ. 

Mirinda Kittredge, Apr. 1880. 82 

Mrs. Ruth Street. 

Widow Abigail Haskins, May 1835. 

Mrs. Judith Hinsdale- William, Oct. 1840. 50 

Thomas Pixley, June 1824. 

Mrs. Patty Pixley-Thomas, June 1824. 

1821. 

Hephizabah Nash, June 1844. Feb. 1875. 81 

Mary Russ, July 1843. 

Mrs. Persis Tyler, Aug. 1853. 89 

David McElwain, June 1824. 

Mrs. Eunice Smith, Jan. 1833. 

Mrs. Mary Hathaway, June 1824. 

Mrs. Sally Gillett, Jan. 1832. 1865. 

1822. 

Mrs. Phebe Ely Allen. Oct. 1833. 57 

Mrs. Rebecca Elizabeth Peirce, 1831. 

Mrs. Mary Cady, Aug. 1826. Mar. 1835. 48 

Mrs. Abigail Briggs, July 1827. 

Minerva Adams, June 1831. Aug. 1888. 83 

Lucy A. Wing, Aug. 1833. Mar. 1842. 36 

Amanda Wentworth. 

Elisha Jones, Sep. 1826. July 1855. 81 

David Porter Robinson, Mar. 1831. Jan. 1880. 75 

Jonathan Huntington, 1830. 1869. 65 

David Wentworth, Aug. 1853. 50 

Charles Thompson Smith, May 1831. 

Elijah Nash, July 1829. 73 

Mrs. Marv Nash-Elijah, Jan. 1828. 62 

Mrs. Olive Barrett-Amos, May 1837. 80 

Louisa Phelps. 

Nathaniel T. Yeomans. 

Mrs. Sylvia Lyman-Isaac, Mar. 1841. 70 

Abial Cady, Apr. 1868. 78 

Mrs. Abigail Cady, June 1866. 72 

Sophia Goodrich, Nov. 1857. 52 

Amanda Frissell, May 1831. 

Lucy Yeomans, Jan. 1825. 

1S24. 

Mrs. Lucy Lathrop-Erastus, Nov. 1846. 67 

Mrs. MerindaHubbard-JolmR., May 1826. 

1825. 

Julia Nash, July 1840. 

Julius Morgan, Apr. 1842. 74 

Epaphras Curtis, May 1878. 76 

Mrs. Louisa Fay-N. W., Feb. 1828. 46 

Rufus Butts, Feb. 1838. 

Mrs. Charlotte Butts-Rufus, Dec. 1833. 





172. 




173. 


L 


174. 




175. 




176. 


L 


177. 


L 


178. 


L 


179. 


L 


180. 




181. 




182. 




183. 




184. 




185. 




186. 


W 1 




188. 




189. 




190. 




191. 




192. 




193. 




194. 




195. 




196. 




197. 


L 


198. 


L 


199. 




200. 




201. 




202. 


L 


203. 


L 


204. 


L 


205. 




206. 




207. 


L 


208. 




209. 


L 


210. 




211. 




212. 




213. 




214. 


L 


215. 


L 


216. 



145 



No. 

217. 

218. 

L 219. 

L 220 

221. 

340. 
L 222. 

223. 

224. 

225. 

226. 

227. 

228. 

229. 
W230. 

231. 

232. 
W 233. 

234. 

235. 

236. 
L 237. 



239. 
240. 
241. 
242. 
243. 
244. 
427. 
245. 
246. 
247. 
248. 
249. 
250. 
251. 
252. 
253. 
254. 
255. 
256. 
257. 

258. 
259. 
260. 
261. 
262. 
263. 
264. 
265. 



1826. 
Mrs. Triphena Wing-Zeri, 
Sarah Louisa Johnson, 
Mrs. Martha Putnam-Henry, 

1827. 
Thomas F. Barker, 

(■ Marshall Peirce, 

Theodore Barrows, 

Rufus Barrett, 

Nathan Wing Fay, 

Frederick Curtiss, 

William W. Adams, 

Stephen Holland, 

Asahel Barker, 

Susan Wisner or Warren, 

Clarissa Lyman, 

Olive Barrett, 2d, 

Mrs. Eliza Bartlett-Julius, 

Clementine M. Bartlett, 

Polly Brown-Obadiah, 

Mrs. Orra W. Mosely-Henry, 

Mrs. Harriet Parsons- Jason, 

Mrs. Caroline Wentworth-E. A., 

Samuel Wright, 

Mrs. Betsey Wright-Samuel, 

David Moseley Hinsdale, 

Luther Watkins, 

Mrs. Lovisa Watkins-Luther, 

Sally Louisa Jones, 

Judith Shedd Kittredge, 

Mary Worthington Kittredge, 

Maria Wright, 

Mrs. Martha Merriman-Daniel, 

Rufus Marsh Wright, 

Charles Snow, 

Oliver Partridge Colt, 

Benjamin Dole, 

Mrs. Betsey Dole-Benjamin, 

James Haskins, 

Clarissa Leland, 

Julia Ann Adams, 

Mrs. Achsah Parsons-Lemuel, 

Mrs. Mary Kittredge- John, 

1828. 

Robert Milliken, 

Mrs. Sally Milliken-Robert, 

Asa Cady, 

Mrs. Teresa Cady-Asa, 

Miller Ames Wright, 

Mrs. Abigail Wright-M. A., 

Mrs. Azubah Morgan, 

Mrs. Orpha Curtiss-Epaphras, 



Dismissed. 
Aug. 1834. 



Dec. 1833. 



Dec. 1835. 



Apr. 1836. 



Approximate Date 
of Death and Age. 

Dec. 1852. 59 
Jan. 1833. 22 
Sep. 1837. 35 

Jan. 1858. 83 



July 

Oct. 

Dec. 

Oct. 

Oct. 



1835. 
1830. 
1835. 
1829. 
1830. 



Nov. 1831. 



Mar. 1850. 



Apr. 1836. 
Dec. 1829. 



Sep. 
Sep. 
Apr. 
Feb. 
Sep. 
Dec. 
Apr. 

Oct. 
Mar. 

Jan. 

July 

July 

Feb. 

Aug. 

Jan. 



1883. 
1827. 
1868. 
1889. 
1874. 
1855. 
1893. 

1835. 
1873. 

1884. 
1871. 
1843. 
1861. 
1838. 
1835. 



Mar. 1871. 
June 1864. 
Feb. 1852. 



Oct. 1841. 
Feb. 1831. 

July 1835. Nov. 1849. 
Dec. 1832. 



Apr. 1837. 

June 1836. 
June 1836. 



Feb. 1837, 
Jan. 1845. 



Jan. 1890. 
Oct. 1881. 

1861. 
Aug. 1875. 

1868. 



Mar. 1867. 

Nov. 1882. 
June 1830. June 1869. 
June 1830. Mar. 1864. 
Nov. 1830. 
Nov. 1830. • 

May 1863. 

Aug. 1874, 



81 
46 
84 
91 

72 
58 
86 

39 
76 

79 
78 
46 
59 
33 
73 

63 

78 
63 



34 
60 



May 1865. 82 



84 
76 
50 



74 
85 
77 
67 



88 
72 



H6 



No. 1828. 

266. Charles Henry Plunkett, 

267. Daniel Nichols Warner, 

268. Almena Davis, 
L 269. Laura McElwain, 

270. Timothy Bacon, 

271. Betsey Richards, 

272. Lavina Goodrich, 

273. Matilda Barrett, 
WL 274. Asa B. Partridge, 
WL 275. Mrs Julia P. Partridge, 

1829. 

L 276. Joseph White, 

L 277. Ichabod Post, 

L 278. Mrs. Elizabeth Post-Ichabod, 

L 279. Mrs. Dorothy B. Warner, 

L 280. Mrs. Phanleia Francis- John, 

1830. 

281. James Benton, 

282. Mrs. Nancy Benton-James, 

283. Mrs. Harriet M. Hinsdale-Levi, 

284. Mrs. Sarah Allen Cooper-Porter, 
L 285. Mrs. Harriet Marsh Kittredge-Dr. B. F., 

1831. 

L 286. Mrs. Alithea Street-Horace, 

L 287. Mrs. Susan T. Butts-Rufus, 

288. Thomas F. Barker, 

289 Elijah Augustus Wentworth, 

290. Isaac Austin Bassett, 

291. Tryphena Merrill-John, 

292. Mrs. Ruth L. Roberts-Samuel P 

293. Mrs. Sophia H. White-Joseph, 
294 Achsah Richards Holland-Stephen, Apr 

295. Mrs. Lilly Lemlev-Solomon, 

296. Clarissa Adams-W. W., 

297. Lydia Pierce, 

g^' I Mary Parks Francis, 

299. Almira Bassett, 

300.' Cynthia Loomis. 

301. Elizabeth Bixbee, 

3"2. Sophronia Kittredge, 

L 303. Mrs. Fanny Buel, 

304. Horace Street, 

1832. 

L 305. Cotton Moody, 

L 306. Mrs. Lucy Moody-Cotton, 

1833. 

L 307. Mrs. Lucy M. Barrett-Thos. P., 

L 308. Russell Tinker, 

L 309. Benjamin E. Warner, 

310. Myra Hinsdale, 







Approximate Date 


Dismissed. 


or Death and 


Age. 






Sep. 


1860. 


59 


Feb. 


1838. 








Dec. 


1860. 


Sep. 


1884. 


76 


June 


1832. 












July 


1834. 


81 






Nov. 


1856. 


54 


Oct. 


1832. 


Oct. 


1881. 


85 






Jan. 


.1884. 


86 


July 


1833. 








July 


1833. 












Apr. 


1860. 


72 






Jan. 


1847. 


78 






Sept. 


1837. 


68 


Feb. 


1838. 








July 


1852. 


Apr. 


1880. 


74 


Jan. 


1831. 


Nov. 


1869. 




Jan. 


1831. 


Sep. 


1877. 


83 


June 


1839. 


Dec. 


1869. 


81 


Oct. 


1834. 








5. F., 




Apr. 


1886. 


76 


Oct. 


1836. 








Feb. 


1838. 








Sep. 


1841. 


Oct. 


1892. 


89 






June 


1858. 


58 


Dec. 


1833. 


Sep. 


1886. 


75 






Mar. 


1860. 


68 






May 


1863 


77 






July 


1888. 


92 


Apr. 


1836. 


Aug. 


1880. 


76 






Feb. 


1888. 


91 






Apr. 


1888. 


80 


Apr. 


1836. 


Apr. 


1888. 


87 


Dec. 


1833. 








Feb. 


1833. 








Oct. 


1836. 


Feb. 


1895. 


80 


Aug. 


1860. 


Oct. 


1895. 


80 






May 


1840. 


41 


Oct. 


1836. 

1840. 
1840. 












July 


1834. 


25 






Nov. 


1844. 


55 


Sep. 


1856. 








Mar. 


1853. 






- 



147 



. No. 1834. 

311. Austin Wing, 

312. Flora Minerva Hawley, 

313. Margaret Stowell, 
L 314. Mrs. Almira Watkins-Riley, 

315. Lucretia Colt, 

316. Susanna Annista Stowell, 

317. Mrs. Mary Northrop Goodrich-E. H 
W 318. Eunice Chamberlain Kittredge, 
L 319. Elviza Goodrich, 

1835. 

L 320. Mrs. Semiramis Barker-Asahel, 

L 321. Mrs. Lydia Meacham, 

L 322. Julia Spencer, 

1836. 

323. Elbridge G. Pierce, 

324. Francis Pierce, 

325. Lewis Pierce. 

326. Judith Mason Pierce, 

327. Harriet Pierce, 

328. Cynthia Parsons, 
3^9. Rebecca Parsons, 

330. Zilpha Parsons, 

331. Maria P. Meacham. 

332. Mary Peck Tinker, July 1853. 

333. Widow Sophia P. Nichols, 

334. Mrs. Roxana A. Tinker-Russell, 

335. Belinda Barker, 

336. Mrs. Seraph Emmons-Monroe, 

g^" )■ Emily Emmons, May 1842. 

338! Abigail Wright, 

339. Martha Emeline Cady, 

1837. 



L 
L 



L 
L 



L 
L 





Approximate Date 


Dismissed. 


op Age and Death 


Aug. 1834. 




Aug. 1856. 




Oct. 1836. 






Sep. 1847. 35 




July 1838. 23 


Aug. 1838. 


1843. 24 




Nov. 1867. 59 


Jan. 1839. 


Apr. 1886. 75 




Sep. 1856. 53 




Nov. 1879. 72 




Feb. 1857. 78 


May 1846. 


Nov. 1864. 43 



Feb. 1847. Aug. 1862. 46 

July 1844. Aug. 1883. 66 

Dec. 1858. Apr. 1872. 58 
Jan. 1852. 

Mar. 1867. May 1872. 61 

Sept. 1856. Sept. 1865. 49 

Aug. 1868. 50 



Apr. 1871. 73 

July 1852. 58 

July 1842. 29 

Sep. 1836. 29 



July 1845. July 1880. 67 
July 1843. 



Marshall Pierce, 

Mrs. Mary Francis Pierce-Marshall, 



340 
341 

576 " I Lyman Payne, 

343. Sarah Jane Colt, 

Mrs. Frances Wright- Asah el, 

Mrs. Martha. Wright-Charles, 

Solomon Ingham, 

Mrs. Polly Ingham-Solomon, 

Abner Wing, 

Mrs. Mehitable Wing-Abner, 

Henry Merriman, 

John Putnam, 

Eunice Clark, 



344. 
345. 
521. 
346. 
347. 
348. 
349. 
350. 
351. 
352. 



L ^' I Henry Pitt, 



L g^' I Mrs. Sophia Pitt-Henry, 

L 355. Mrs. Martha C. Curtiss-Frederick, 



J 


May 
June 


1886. 
1895. 


77 
84 


May 1842. 








July 1842. 
Sep. 1844. 


Apr. 


1863. 


76 


Sep. 1844. 








Sep. 1840. 
Sep. 1840. 
Sep. 1840. 
Nov. 1849. 
Aug. 1856. 
Jan. 1846. 


Nov. 
Apr. 


1837. 

1867. 
1866. 
1885. 


86 

75 
74 


May 1861. 








May 1861. 









Apr. 1876 67 



148 

Approximate Date 





No. 


1838. 


Dismissed. 


of Death and 


Age. 




356. 


Warren W. Pierce, 


July 


1845. 


Aug. 


1881. 


69 




357. 


Elijah L. Little, 


Aug. 


1841. 










358. 


Lydia Morgan. 












L 


359. 


Mrs. Mary Cheeseman- Abel, 






Feb. 


1842. 


80 


L 


360. 


Anna Cheeseman, 






Mar. 


1888. 


84 


L 


361. 


1839. 
Mrs. Sarah T. Merriman-Henry, 


Nov. 


1849. 


May 


1851. 


34 


L 


362. 


Mrs. Cynthia Stowell Wentworth- 

1840. 

Edward Cheeseman, 


E. A. 




Jan. 


1893. 


81 


L 


363. 






May 


1885. 


84 




364. 


Mrs. Lucinda B. Cheeseman-Edward, 




Mar. 


1886. 


84 


L 


365. 


James Miller, 






Mar. 


1880. 


82 


L 


366. 


Mrs. Lucy Miller-James, 

1 CM1 






Mar. 


1875. 


79 


L 


367. 


lo41. 

Mrs. Susan Emmons-Noadiah, 






Sep. 


1877. 


73 


L 


368. 


Rev. Seth W. Banister, 


Apr. 


1846. 


Oct. 


1861. 


52 




369. 


Loran C. Clark, 






Feb. 


1863. 


44 




370. 


Sarah H. White, 


Aug. 


1850. 










371. 


Mary Ann Hinsdale, 






Apr. 


1842. 


23 




372. 


Eliza Cady, 


Oct. 


1847. 








L 


373. 


Mrs. Harriet Watk ins-Daniel, 






Aug. 


1883. 


87 


L 


374. 


Mrs. Keturah Phelps-Seth, 






Dec. 


1854. 


74 


L 


375. 


Servius Ellis. 


July 


1848. 




1854. 




L 


376. 


Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis-Servius, 

1 CMO 


July 


1848. 








L 


377. 


lo4!tf. 

Mrs. Elizabeth E. H. Banister-S. W 


., June 


1847. 


July 


1850. 


32 


L 


378. 


Mrs. Kesiah L. Blair, 






Dec. 


1852. 




L 


379. 


Mrs. Nancy P. Loomis, 






Oct. 


1865. 


69 




380. 


John Merrill, 






Sep. 


1869. 


77 




381. 


Ira Torrey, 






Sep. 


1892. 


78 




382. 


Charles J. Kittredge. 












L 


383. 


Silas B. Bottom, 






Aug. 


1876. 


63 




384. 


Captain Abraham Washburn, 

1843. 
Mrs. Naomi Wentworth-David, 






Sep. 


1852. 


97 


L 


385. 


July 


1855. 


Jan. 


1863. 


51 




386. 


Mrs. Phoebe M. Chapin, 


Apr. 


1847. 








L 


387. 


Charles Snow, 






Nov. 


1849. 


42 


L 


388. 


Henry Cady, 


Oct. 


1844. 








L 


389. 


Mrs. Maria Cady-Henry, 


Oct. 


1844. 








L 


390. 


Edward T. Nash, 






Apr. 


1860. 


58 


L 


391. 


Mrs. Charlotte Nash-E. T., 






July 


1863. 


51 


L 


392. 


Mrs. Chloe B. Parish-Gordon, 


Dec. 


1865. 


Mar. 


1892. 


76 


L 


393. 


Mrs. Marinda Kittredge Lombard, 


Feb. 


1844. 


Apr. 


1880. 


82 


L 


394. 


Horatio Everett, 


Jan. 


1875. 


Sep. 


1887. 


78 


L 


395. 
475. 


I E.N. Colt, M. D., 


July 


1845. 








L 


396. 
476. 


[Mrs. Lydia Col t-E. N., 


July 


1845. 










397. 


Christopher C. Pierce, 






Oct. 


1890. 


71 




398. 


Elizabeth W. Hinsdale, 


Oct. 


1856. 








L 


399. 


Zeri Wing, 






Dec. 


1853. 


59 


L 


400. 


Mrs. Zeri Wing. 















No. 


L 


401. 


L 


402. 


L 


403. 


AL404. 


AL405. 


L 


406. 


L 


407. 


L 


408. 


L 


409. 


L 


410. 


L 


411. 


L 


412. 


L 


413. 


L 


. 414. 


L 


415. 



Dismissed. 


of Age and Death. 


May 


1853. 


Nov. 1888. 


68 


Feb. 
May 


1852. 
1853. 

1886. 










June 1864. 
Feb. 1861. 


50 
65 


July 
June 
May 


1850. 

1848. 
1847. 


Jan. 1862. 

Dec. 1890. 
Jan. 1849. 
Oct. 1881. 


47 

69 
63 
90 



149 

Approximate Date 
1843. 

Milo Wing, 

Mrs. Martha A. Wing-Milo. 

Malvina Wing, 

Corinth Wing, 

Anna B. Wing, 

1844. 
Mrs. Sarah Tuttle-John M., 
Mrs. Abigail Hinsdale-William, 

1845. 
Truman Crossett, 
Chauncey A. Ferguson, 
Ira B. Sampson, 
Mrs. Mary E. Clark-Loran C, 
Nathaniel Butts, 
Mrs. Polly Butts-Nathaniel, 
Mary Butts. 
Mrs. Frances B. Kittredge-C. J. 

L g^- I Mrs. Elvira Comstock Parish-E. H,, Feb. 1874. 

1847. 

L g^- i Lyman White, Mar. 1859. 

L ggg J- Mrs. Annah White-Lyman, Mar. 1859. 

L 419. Clarissa White, Dec. 1854. 24 

L 420. Rev. Edward Taylor, Oct. 1850. 

L 421. Selden R. Ferguson, June 1857. 40 

L 422. Isaac Bassett. 

L 423. Mrs. Margaret P. Ferguson-S. R. , Jan. 1854. 33 

535' j- Milo M. Wentworth, June 1854. 

425. Otis Jones, Mar. 1853. 

426. Mrs. Susanna Jones-Otis. Mar. 1853. 

L 427. Mrs. Judith Kittredge Wells, June 1850. Feb. 1882. 77 

428. Erastus Pierce, July 1884. 79 

429. Mrs. Sophia M. Pierce-Erastus, Mar. 1883. 73 

430. Ira Day, May 1887. 75 

431. Mrs. Frances F. Day-Ira, May 1884. 64 

432. Lydia Tucker, Mar. 1876. 74 

433. William Clark, Jr., Apr. 1886. 67 

434. Mrs. Lucy E. Clark- William, Jr., Dec. 1890. 68 

435. Henry Putnam, Feb. 1863. 62 

436. John Francis, July 1852. Mar. 1885. 83 

437. Abel Kittredge, Jr., June 1870. June 1886. 64 

438. Orlen N. B. Pierce, 1853. 

439. Mrs. Wancy Taylor Plunkett-C. H., Aug. 1869. 54 

440. Mrs. Harriet Tracy-William, Mar. 1858. 42 

441. Sarah Pierce, Nov. 1858. 58 

442. Sarah L. Merrill, Jan. 1857. June 1879. 

443. Julia A. Merrill, Sep. 1855. Sep. 1892. 72 

444. Mary K. Roberts, Apr. 1853. Feb. 1878. 50 

445. Elizabeth A. Cady, Feb. 1853. 

446. Janette Blake, Jan. 1874. 



150 



L 
L 



No. 

447. 

448. 

449. 

450. 

451. 

452. 

453. 

454. 

455. 

456. 

457. 

458. 

459. 

460. 

461. 

462. 

463. 

464. 

465. 

466. 

467. 

468. 

469. 

470. 

471. 

472. 

473. 

474. 

475. 

476. 



Approximate Date 



L 477. 
L 478. 

479. 

480. 

481. 
AL482. 

483. 

484. 

485. 

486. 

487. 

488. 

489. 

490. 

491. 



L 
L 
L 
L 
L 
L 



492. 
493. 
494. 
495. 
496. 
497. 



1847. 


Dismissed. 


or Death and 


Age. 


Martha L. Tinker, 


Dec. 1861. 


June 


1892 


65 


Olive Clark, 


Jan. 1850. 


Oct. 


1850. 


22 


Sophia M. White, 


May 1854. 








Riley Watkins, 




July 


1884. 


80 


Samuel Watkins, 




Aug, 


, 1886. 


75 


Gordon Parish, 


Dec. 1865. 


Dec. 


1877. 


64 


Elisha H. Parish, 




Sep. 


1871. 


53 


Peter Parsons. 










Lemuel Parsons, Jr., 


May 1857. 








George N. Cady, 


1886. 








Charles Chandler Thompson, 


Jan. 1850. 








Mrs. Kesiah W. Drowne, 


Feb. 1852. 


Mar. 


1895. 


82 


Genevra Richards, 


Apr. 1854. 








Mary Barrows, 




July 


1889. 


58 


Sarah Amelia Livermore, 


June 1858. 








Emerancy White, 




Oct. 


1847. 


14 


Eunice Pierce, 


Apr. 1850. 








Maria Cole, 


May 1863. 








Mrs. Jane G. Taylor-Rev. Edward 


, Feb. 1851. 








Festus Francis. 




Sep. 


1862. 


87 


Lysander M. Francis. 










Mrs. Mary Bird Francis-L. M. , 




June 


1891. 


76 


Austin M. Wentworth, 


Dec. 1850. 


Feb. 


1890. 


64 


Rufus Apthorpe, 


Sep. 1861. 








Harriet Cornelia Kittredge. 


Apr. 1856. 








Laura Nicholson. 










Cynthia Cole, 




June 1855. 


29 


Harvey T. Spring, 




May 


1853. 


27 


E. N. Colt, M. D., 


Aug. 1849. 


Sep. 


1893. 


82 


Mrs. Lydia B. Colt-E. N., 

1848: 

Caroline Fergueson, 


Aug. 1849. 


Mar. 


1893. 


81 


July 1852. 








Philip H. Sears, 


Dec. 1852. 








Noadiah Emmons, 




Feb. 


1883. 


81 


Philander F. Booth, 


Dec. 1860. 


Mar. 


1895. 


84 


Jocob Booth, Jr., 




Apr. 


1871. 


74 


William P. Morehouse, 


1886. 








Nathan W. Fay, 


Jan. 1859. 


Aug. 


1886. 


63 


Henry Alexander Peirce, 


Dec. 1852. 








Mrs. Harriet Eames-A. D. 










George W. McElwain, 




July 


1861. 


78 


Mrs. Frances McElwain-G. W., 




Feb. 


1875. 


90 


Thomas Stebbins, 


'May 1851. 








Julia Putnam, 


Oct. 1853. 


Nov. 


1869. 


41 


Mrs. Mary Loveland-Samuel, 




Sep. 


1851. 


39 


Sarah. M. Nash, 


Nov. 1859. 


Dec. 


1867. 


37 


1849. 

Harvey S. Beals, 


July 1854. 








Sarah J. Beals-Harvey S., 






1851. 




Levi Alexander, 


Mar 1850. 








Mrs. Mary Alexander-Levi, 


Mar. 1850. 








Justin Smith, M. D., 


June 1853. 








Martha L. Smith, 


June 1853. 









151 













Appro; 


5IMATE 


Date 




No. 


1850. 


Dismissed. 


of Death and 


Age. 




498. 


Lucy M. Tucker. 














499. 


Frederick Barstow, 


Dec. 


1854. 










500. 


Martin Livermore, 






Feb. 


1870. 


65 




501. 


Lorenzo Davison Heath, 






Nov. 


1852. 






502. 


Baxter Ellis Johnson, 






Dec. 


1855. 


34 




503. 


James Irwin, 


Mar. 


1868. 










504. 


Betsey Eliza Irwin, 


Mar, 


1868. 










505. 


Mrs. Hannah M. Johnson-Baxter. 














506. 


Mary Morris, 








1890. 






507. 


Mary Coope, 


Oct. 


1855. 










508. 


Mrs. Emmeline B. Lemley-Chas. D. 


,Mar. 


1860. 


Nov. 


1893. 


63 




509. 


Elizabeth Richards, 


Dec. 


1854. 


Oct. 


18.78. 


52 




510. 


Louisa Graves, 


Apr. 


1854. 








L 


511. 


Eunice Eames-Daniel, 


Sep. 


1864. 


Feb. 


1890. 


82 


L 


512. 


Mrs. Hetta Livermore-Martin, 






Aug. 


1884. 




L 


518. 


Amanda Gamwell, 






Mar. 


1870. 


66 


L 


514. 


William S. Davis, 


Mar. 


1857. 


July 


1881. 


75 


L 


515. 


Mrs. Clarissa V. Davis-Wm. S., 


Mar. 


1857. 


Apr. 


1879. 


67 


L 


516. 


Sarah Spring, 


July 


1855. 








L 


517. 


Mrs. Eliza McC. Peirce-C. C. 












L 


518. 


Estha Fish. 

1851. 






Aug 


. 1859. 


95 



L 519. Harriet M. Beals-Harvey S. July 1854. 

ggg I Charles Wright, Sep. 1855. 

L 0Q4 | Mrs. Martha P. Wright-Charles, Sep. 1855. 

522. Mrs. Hannah E. Curtiss-Henry, July 1873. 50 

1852. 

L 523. Mrs. Sarah Hooker Kittredge-Abel, June 1870. Oct. 18.77. 55 

1853. 



L 


524. 


Rev. P. K. Clark, 


Aug. 


1856. 


Jan. 


1872. 


60 


L 


525. 


Mrs Hannah A. Clark-Rev. P. K. 


, Aug. 


1856. 








L 


526. 


Samuel Loveland, 






July 


1872. 


69 


L 


527. 


Mrs. Sarah M. Loveland-Samuel, 


June 


1874. 


June 


1887. 


71 




528. 


George M. Wright, 


Sep. 


1855. 


July 


1870. 


33 




529. 


Myron Barrows, 


Sep. 


1858. 


May 


1874. 


36 




530. 


Alvin F. Davis, 


Dec. 


1862. 










531. 


Charles M. Pierce, 


Mar. 


1865. 










532. 


A. Washburn Goodrich. 














533. 


Chauncey Goodrich. 














534. 

748. 


t John Brewster Barker, 
Elim B. Clark, 


Apr. 


1857. 










535. 


Nov. 


1858. 










'536. 


Harlan A. Pierce, 


Nov. 


1878. 










537. 


Mrs. Sarah Pierce, 






May 


1858. 


80 




538. 


Mrs. Lucinda Booth, 






July 


1870. 


90 




539. 


Mrs. Nancy Clapp-R. J., 






Dec. 


1856. 


30 




540. 


Eliza A. Miller, 


Feb. 


1876. 










541. 


Ellen M. Miller, 


Sep. 


1857. 










542. 


Martha A. Putnam, 


June 


1861. 


Apr. 


1866. 


36 




543. 


Seraph E. Putnam, 






Apr. 


1861. 


25 



152 



No. 

544. 
545. 
546. 
547. 
548. 
661. 
549. 
550. 
551. 
552. 
553. 
554. 
555. 
556. 
557. 
558. 
559. 
560. 
561. 
562. 

563. 
564. 
565. 
566. 
567. 
568. 
569. 
570. 



L 571. 

L 572. 

L 573. 

L 574. 

L 575. 

L 576. 

L 577. 



L 
L 
L 
L 
L 
L 
L 
L 



578. 
579. 
580. 
581. 
582. 
583. 
584. 
585. 



Deming-L. J. 



L 586. 

L 587. 

588. 



1853. 
Ophelia. M. Putnam, 
Maria A. Clark, 
Elizabeth P. Kittredge. 
Julia R. Kittredge, 

I Frances J. Kittredge, 

Sarah Curtiss. 
Mary R. Plunkett, 
Clarissa B. Pierce. 
Adeline M. Pierce. 
Cliniena E. Morgan, 
Phoebe Cady, 
Emily C. Went worth, 
Celestia Barrows. 
Henry C. Haskell, 
Mrs. Louisa R. Graves-Fortine, 
Mrs. Maria Clark. 
Mrs. Sarah A. 
Sylvia L. Millikan. 
Lorenzo J. Deming, 
1854. 

Sylvia L. Colt, 

Elizabeth W. Fergueson, 

Mrs. Laura Birmingham-Henry, 

Deacon Clark Prince, 

Mrs. Priscilla Prince-Clark, 

Mrs. Phanelia Prince-William, 

Harriet A. Prince, 

Priscilla A. Prince, 

1855. 

James K. Lombard, 
Ambrose Meacham, 
Mrs. Electa Meacham-Anibrose, 
Harriet Meacham, 

1857. 
Mrs. Mary C. Bingham-Silas. 
Lyman Payne, 
Mrs. Emily E. Payne-Lyman, 

1858. 
Milton Nash, 

Mrs. Harmony D. Nash-Milton, 
Willard Beals, 

Mrs. Laura S. Beals-Willard, 
Rev. Kinsley Twining, 
John R. Davison, 
Mrs. Betsey Davison-John R., 
Milo M. Wentworth. 
Mrs. Clara C. Wentworth-M. M. 
J. T. Mack, 
Sarah J. Mack, 



Approximate Date 
Dismissed, of Death and Age. 

Aug 1856. 

Apr. 1856. Oct. 1895. 59 

Feb. 1868. Aug. 1893. 58 
Dec. 1860. 

July 1864. 28 



Aug. 
June 


1866. 
1867. 


Jan. 


1863. 


24 


Sep. 


1855. 


Feb. 


1865. 


61 


Aug. 


1874. 








Aug. 


1874. 








Nov. 
Nov. 
Sep. 
June 

Aug. 
Oct. 


1879. 
1861. 
1873. 
1873. 

1856. 

1857. 


May 

Oct. 
June 
Jan. 


1874. 
1879. 

1870. 
1859. 


40 
75 
67 
85 


Aug. 
Sep. 
Sep. 
Aug. 


1857. 
1871. 
1871. 
1856. 


Aug. 
Nov. 
Jan. 


1889. 
1887. 

1889. 


57 
83 
84 




> 


Dec. 
Feb. 


1888. 
1885. 


77 
70 


Aug. 
Feb. 


1868. 
1864. 


Apr. 
Nov. 
Mar. 
Mar. 


1879. 
1861. 
1872. 
1863. 


72 
39 
70 

57 






June 1892. 


67 






May 
May 


1861. 

1859. 


50 
17 



153 





No. 


1859. 




589. 


Jane L. Clark. 




590. 


George W. Tracy, 




591. 


William Harrison Benson. 




592. 


Martha R. Beals. 


L 


593. 


George W. Hathaway, 


L 


594. 


Mrs. Betsey Hathaway-G. W., 




595. 


Emily Frances Booth, 




596. 


Eunice C. Kittredge, 




597. 


Sarah M. Kittredge. 




598. 


Thomas F. Barker. 


L 


599. 


Stephen Bartlett, 


L 


600. 


Royal D. Geer, 


L 


601. 


Mrs. Lydia J. S. Geer-R. D., 


L 


602. 


Mrs. Elmira Tucker, 
I860. 


L 


603. 


Mrs. Harriet R. Parks, 


I, 


604. 


Mrs. Martha P. Wright-Charles, 


L 


605. 


Mrs. Eliza Parsons-Peter. 


L 


606. 


Mrs. Independence Bartlett, 


L 


607. 


Harlow Spring, 


L 


608. 


Monroe Gleason, 


L 


609. 


William Braithwaite, 


L 


610. 


Mrs. Sarah Braithwaite-William, 


L 


611. 


Mary Braithwaite, 


L 


612. 


Anne Braithwaite, 

1861. 


L 


613. 


Noah Benson, 


L 


614. 


Mrs. Tamma Benson-Noah, 


L 


615. 


Mary E. Desencamper, 




616. 


William Ambrose Taylor. 
1862. 


L 


617. 


Abbie L. Taylor, 


L 


618. 


Otis Taylor, 


L 


619. 


Mrs. Pamelia Taylor-Otis, 


L 


620. 


Henry C. Bennett, 


L 


621. 


Lyman White, 


L 


622. 


Mrs. Annah White-Lyman, 


L 


623. 


Henry A. Pierce, 


L 


624. 


Mrs. Mary E. Pierce-Henry A., 

1863. 


J, 


625. 


Mrs. Ella A. Granger, 


L 


626. 


Mrs. Louisa H. Hatch, 


L 


627. 


Jane M. Watkins, 


L 


628. 


Charles Wright, 




629. 


Mrs. Sarah S. White-S. H. 




630. 


Henry W. Watkins. 




631. 


Miriam T. Watkins, 




632. 


Elizabeth A. Pierce. 

1865. 




633. 


Dwight F. Benson, 




634. 


Mrs. Lavinia C. Benson-Dwight F, 




635. 


William Wood, 



Dismissed. 
Apr. 1866. 



June 1866. 
June 1866. 
July 1862. 



Nov. 1861. 
Nov. 1861. 
Apr. 1866. 

Sep. 1871. 
May 1872. 

Apr. 1873. 

June 1861. 
Apr. 1866. 
Apr. 1866. 
Apr. 1866. 
Apr. 1866. 



Dec. 1862. 



Approximate Date 
op Death and Age. 



Sep. 1861. 21 



Jan. 1861. 
Oct. 1892. 



72 
65 



May 1884. 64 



Nov. 1862. 
Apr. 1867. 
Apr. 1867. 
Nov, 1864. 
Nov. 1864. 

Mar. 1870. 
Apr. 1867. 
Apr. 1882. 



Jan. 1876. 



Jan. 1878. 



Apr. 1892. 
Apr. 1864. 

Feb. 1879. 
Apr. 1880. 



June 1868. 
Aug. 1881. 



Feb. 1881. 
Mar. 1888. 

Jan. 1882. 
Aug. 1870. 
Dec. 1882. 



Oct. 1886. 
Mar. 1867. 



80 
64 

77 
74 



80 
86 



83 
89 

86 
75 
56 



52 
54 



May 1892. 65 



Aug. 1880. 59 



154 



No. 1865. 

636. Mrs. Elizabeth Wood-William, 

637. Henry S. Wright, 

638. Sarah S. Bottom. 

639. Eleanor M. Granger, 

640. Martha A. Prince, 

641. Elizabeth N. Bingham, 

642. Marian Deming, 

643. Sarah Jane Loveland, 

644. Edward F. Wentworth. 

645. Rachel E. Livermore, 

646. Henry A. Deming, 

647. Mrs. Isabel Deming-H. A. . 

648. Milo Stowell. 

649. E. H. Goodrich, Jr. 

650. Mrs. Louisa Emmons-Monroe, 

651. Monroe Emmons, 

1866. 

652. Mrs. Mary H. Stowell-Milo, 

653. Catherine W. Kittredge, 

flf | Emily K. Payne, 

Ellen J. Kittredge, 

Samuel B. Dickinson, 

Mrs Caroline Dickinson-Samuel, 

Clark T. Lyman, Aug. 1885. 72 

Mrs. Lydia R. Lyman-C. T. 

1867. 

James Hosmer. 

Mrs. Frances K. Hosmer-James. 

Mrs. Mary E. Clark-E. W., Sep. 1895. 53 

Chester Clark, Mar. 1872. 67 

Mrs. Helen H. Taylor-W. A. 

Mrs. Harriet H. Baldwin-Chauncey, Nov. 1872. 55 

Caroline M. Baldwin, Dec. 1875. 

Lyman Mack Payne. 





655. 


L 


656. 


L 


657. 


L 


658. 


L 


659. 


L 


660. 


L 


661. 


L 


662. 


L 


663. 


L 


664. 


L 


665. 


L 


666. 




667. 




668. 




669. 




858. 


L 


670. 


L 


671. 


L 


672. 


L 


673. 


L 


674. 




675. 


L 


676. 


L 


677. 




678. 


L 


679. 


L 


680. 


L 


681. 


L 


682. 



Dismissed. 
Jan. 1878. 
June 1867. 


Approximate Date 
of Death and Age. 


Mar. 1870. 
June 1873. 
Feb. 1889. 
Apr. 1878. 
June 1874. 


July 1893. 


45 


Nov. 1876. 
Mar. 1872. 
Mar. 1872. 


Jan. 1886. 


59 




Feb. 1892. 
Dec. 1865. 


79 
66 




Aug. 1889. 
May 1882. 


55 

35 


Dec. 1874. 






Apr. 1874. 

Nov. 1868. 
Nov. 1868. 







Susan H. Bingham. 



Emma J. Parish, Feb. 1874. May 1886. 

Mrs. F. A. Corson Goodrich-A. W. 

Rev. Ephraim Flint, Jr., Nov. 1882. 54 

Mrs. Orilla H. Flint-Rev. E., Jr., Dec. 1893. 

1868. 
Newton B. Whitman, Sep. 1882. 60 

Mrs. Anna E. Whitman-N. B. 
Clara E. Wentworth. 
Henry Pitt, 

Mrs. Sophia Pitt-Henry, 
Catherine Baldwin, 
Edwin Hume, 

Mrs. Priscilla A. Hume-Edwin, 
Deacon Ebenezcr Haskell, 
Mrs. Lydia P. Haskell-Ebenezer, 





Mar. 


1882. 


96 




Mar. 


1879. 


91 


Apr. 1885. 








Apr. 1869. 








Apr. 1869. 










July 


1870. 


76 




July 


1885. 


38 



155 



Approximate Date 



Dismissed. 


op Age and Death. 


Apr. 1874. 
Apr. 1874. 
Sep. 1876. 
May 1872. 


July 1890. 52 




July 1871. 69 
Mar. 1890. 58 



No. 1868. 

L 683. Wilbur F. Wilder, 

L 684. Mrs. Delia Wilder- W. F., 

685. David Mack Emmons, 

686. Martha Cornelia Wright, 

1869. 

L 687. Mrs. Louisa L. Hosmer-Zelotes, 

L 688. Marjr Louisa Hosmer, 

689. Mrs. Maria C. Ball. 

690. Mrs. Harriet Post Roth. 

1870. 

L 691. Mrs. Fanny A. Seymour-C, Apr. 1875. 

L 692. Mrs. Sarah A. Warriner-Rev. Francis. 

L 693. Sophia M. Warriner, Oct. 1890. 

694. Amory E. Taylor, Jan. 1875. Jan. 1875. 47 

695. Mrs. Antoinette B. Taylor-A. E., Jan. 1875. 

696. James B. Kittredge. 

697. George T. Plunkett. 

698. Clara Maria Johnson, Mar. 1885. 

699. Mary Emma Birmingham, Sep. 1873. May 1874. 16 
L 700. John Gaunt. 

L 701. Mrs. Philomelia Gaunt-John. 

AL702. Mrs. Julietta Rust, 1886. 

703. Edward Wilson Clark. 

704. John Randall Cole, Nov. 1894. June 1895. 84 

705. Mrs. Sarah A. Cole-John R., Nov. 1894. 
A 706. William F. Wood, 1887. 

707. 
859. f 

708. Frederick N. Sears, June 1894. 

709. John P. Mack, Dec. 1893. 

710. Charles A. Morgan. 

[ Philip Henry Sears, June 1876. 

712. Edson J. Searle, July 1872. 

713. Walter F. Davison. 

714. Herbert M. Davison, Feb. 1884. Feb. 1885. 33 

715. Harris G. Emmons. 

716. Alden H. Pierce. 

717. Almin F. Bartlett, Jan. 1887. 

718. Edwin H. Clark, July 1892. 43 

719. Chauncey Baldwin, May 1884. 83 

720. Henry Birmingham, Sep. 1873. Mav 1874. 44 

721. Mrs. Ellen M. Bartlett-Peter. 

722. William I. Day. 

A 723. Thomas H. Wood, 1887. 

724 Mrs. Martha A. Pease, Nov. 1870. 40 

725. Alice Maria Benson, Feb. 1884. 

L 726. Mrs. Abigail Hume— Richard, Aug. 1872. 83 

L 727. Hannah W. Carter, Feb. 1871. 

728. Ellis Jones, Jan. 1889. 

729. Mrs. Mary A. W. Jones— Ellis, Jan. 1889. 

730. Mrs. Mary Jane Bowen — John C. 

731. Julia Ella Francis, Oct. 1889. 37 



Ella A. Parish, Feb. 1874. 



711. 

825. 



156 



No. 1870. 

732. Hannah D. Taylor. 

733. Clara B. Kittredge, 

734. Orissa W. Converse, 

735. Mary Abbie Heustis, 

736. Martha E. Stowell. 

737. George Monroe Watkins. 

738. Simon H. White. 

739. Helen Tuttle. 

740. Charlotte E. Tuttle. 

741. Lelia E. Taylor, 

1871. 

742. William F. Wright, 
L 743. Phineas L. Page, 

L 744. Mrs. Lorrie A. Page-P. L. , 

L 745. Mrs. Julia Crosier. 

L 746. MahlonGloyd. 

L 747. Mrs. Emily B. Gloyd-Mahlon. 

1872. 

L 748. John Brewster Barker. 

749. Charles B. Tower. 

L 750. Rufus Williams, 

L 751. Mrs. Maria Williams-Rufus, 

L 752. Mrs. Julia Ann Tower, 

753. DeEtte Rogers. 

754. Emma H. Emmons. 

755. Lizzie Mary Clark. 

1873. 

756. Ortentia L. Converse. 

757. Allie L. Bingham, 

758. Annie C. Parish, 

L 759. Mrs. A. W. Gleason-W. W., 

A 760. William F. Tower, 

761. Annie P. Day, 

762. Minnie Louise Hall, 

763. Henry P. Page, 

764. Dwight B. Page, 

1874. 

765. Thomas W. Holmes, 

766. Mrs. Sophia C. Holmes, 

767. William P. Wentworth, 

L 768. Mrs. Elizabeth Ramage-Adam, 

769. Edward H. Taylor, 

770. Mary Elmer Pierce. 

771. Martha B. Gleason, 
L 772. Mrs. Mary Knight, 

L 773. Mrs. Sarah J. McGeoch, 

774. Martha E. Stevenson, 

775. Mary Jane Curtiss. 

776. Mrs. Amarilla A. Barker-T. F. 

187B. 

777. John Clinton Bowen, 

778. Albert E. Parish, 



Approximate Date 
Dismissed, of Death and Age. 

Mar. 1884. 
Apr. 1881. 
Feb. 1873. 



Jan. 1875. 

Mar. 1873. 

Feb. 1874. Dec. 1893. 

Feb. 1874. 



74 



Mar. 1882. 



July 1875. 60 
Mar. 1881. 61 



Dec. 


1878. 








Feb. 


1874. 












July 


1875. 


31 




1895. 








Dec. 


1888. 












Jan. 


1879. 


19 


Feb. 


1874. 


July 


1895. 


36 


Feb. 


1874. 








Aug. 


1874. 








Aug. 


1874. 








Apr. 


1894. 








Nov. 


1874. 








Jan. 


1875. 








Apr. 


1882. 


Sep. 


i--; 




Apr. 


1878. 








Sep. 


1885. 


Dec. 


is;;. 


35 


Oct. 


1888. 









157 



No. 1875. 

779. Mrs. Alma S. Parish-A. E., 

L 780. Mrs. MattieM. Sears-P. H., 

L 781. Thomas A. Frissell. 

782. Ellen Smart, 

L 783. Rev. J. J. Dana, 

L 784. Mrs. Sarah E. Dana-J. J., 

785. Mrs. Amanda Roth- William, 

786. Janette Ladd, 

1876. 



Approximate Bate 



Dismissed, 


op Death and 


A<;e 


Oct. 1888. 








June 1876. 








Apr. 1877. 


Aug. 


1888. 


29 


Apr. 1877. 








Apr. 1877. 


Aug. 


1895. 


74 




Mar. 


1876. 


64 




Apr. 


1885. 


46 



787. 
854. 



- Samuel McAnnanny, Feb. 1878. 



gi?|?- !• Mrs. Harriet McAnnanny, Feb. 1878. 

789. Mrs. Ortentia J. Converse-Chapin. 

790. Ira Herbert Scott, Oct. 1876. 21 

791. George Abrahams. 

792. Mrs. Helen J. Abrahams-George, Oct. 1876. 36 
A 793. Mary Thompson, 1886. 

794. Sarah Alice Pierce, June 1886. 

795. Mrs. Helen E. Francis-Charles F., Sep. 1881. Sep. 1889. 38 

796. Henry Benton Avery, Nov. 1878. 

L 797. Mrs. Sophia Jackson-Richard, June 1885. 52 

1877. 

798. Lillie A. Benson. 

L 799. Charles D. Barrett. 

L 800. Mrs. Ann E. Barrett-C. D., 

801. Lucelia M. Watkins. 

802. Mrs. Sarah W. Watkins-Monroe F. 

803. Mary Richard Watkins. 

804. Fanny Amelia Loring, 

805. Alice T. Nye. 
A 806. Eli L. Carter, 
A 807. Mrs. Martha A. Carter-E. L., 
A 808. Eugene C. Johnson, 

809. Arthur S. Wheeler. 

810. Frank S. Watkins, 

811. William B. Pitt, 

812. Levi L. Whitman. 

813. Henry Clarence Parsons. 
L 814. Edward E. Fay. 

L 815. Mrs. Julia H. Fay-E. E., 

L 816. Milton Dixon, May 1878. 

L 817. Mrs. Julia D. Brown-Lewis D., Dec. 1879. 

L 818. Helen E. Brown. Dec. 1879. 

L 819. Emma L. Brown, Dec. 1879. 

L 820. Frederick W. Brown, Dec. 1879. Oct. 1887. 28 

1878. 

821. Albert R. Mecum. 

822. Mrs. Harriet A. Watkins. 

L 823. Mrs. Sophronia E. G. Birmingham-S. G. 

L 824. Mrs. Mary Ella Tower-C. B. 

L 825. Philip Henry Sears, Apr. 1886. 





Dec. 


1881. 


46 


June 1879. 








1886. 

June 1886. 

1886. 




r 






July 
Jan. 


1877. 
1879. 


21 
60 



158 

Approximate Date 





No. 




1878. 


Dismissed. 


of Death and 


Age. 


L 


826. 


Mrs. 


Mattie M. Sears-P. H. , 


Apr. 


1886. 










827. 


Hattie A. P. Roth. 












L 


828. 


Mrs. 


Mary E. Robinson-C. C. 












L 


829. 


Louise B. Stetson, 


Mar. 


1894. 














1879. 














830. 


Mrs. 


Sarah Louisa Barrett-James. 














831. 


Harriet R. Watkins. 














832. 


Dennis J. Brown, 


Sep. 


1895. 








L 


833. 


Mrs. 


Martha F. Haskell, 


July 


1882. 


Aug. 


1889. 




L 


834. 


Mrs. 


Margaret J. Evans-David, 

1880. 






June 


1889. 


34 


L 


835. 


Mrs. 


Fanny A. Peirce-C. A. 












L 


836. 


Mrs. 


Kate C. Plunkett-G. T. 












L 


837. 


Annie M. Bond, 


July 


1883. 










838. 


Mrs. 


Frances E. Stetson, 






Feb. 


1881. 


52 


L 


839. 


Will 


iam H. Sherman, 


Mar. 


1884. 








L 


840. 
841. 


Mrs. 

Lym 


S. W. L. Sherman-W. H., 

1881. 
an Mack. 


Mar. 


1884. 










842. 


Mrs. 


Maria P. Mack-Lyman, 






Oct. 


1894. 


73 




843. 


Mary E. Mack. 














844. 


Mrs. 


Emily Watkins-Alonzo. 














845. 


Mrs. 


Eliza E. Jackson-Haven. 












L 


846. 


Mrs. 


Julia Gleason-W. W., 

1882. 


Jan. 


1885. 








L 


847. 


Mrs. 


Louisa Merwin-Henry E., 


Apr. 


1882. 








L 


848. 
849. 


Mrs. 
Mrs. 


Rachel Gloyd-Benjamin, 
Anna B. Ascha-C. G. 






Mar. 


1889. 


76 




850. 


Mrs. 


EllaC. Watkins-M. M., 






Feb. 


1885. 


38 




851. 


Mrs. 


Eleanor T. W. Plummer-G. B 












L 


852. 


Mrs. 


Emma Collins-Dr. E. C, 


Sep. 


1893. 








L 


853. 


Sidn 


ey S. Stowell. 












L 


854. 


Samuel McAnany, 


Dec. 


1886. 


July 


1893. 




L 


855. 


Mrs. 


Harriet McAnanny-Samuel, 


Dec. 


1886. 








L 


856. 


Hattie McAnanny, 


Dec. 


1886. 








L 


857. 


Mrs. 


Elvira C. Parish-E. H. 












L 


858. 


Emma J. Parish, 






May 


1886. 


34 


L 


859. 


Ella 


A. Parish, 


Sep. 


1884. 








L 


860. 
861. 


Hattie Parish, 
Sarah D. Curtiss. 


Sep. 


1884. 


Dec. 


1891. 


29 




862. 


Virg 


inia H. Watkins. 

1883. 












L 


863. 


Rev. 


James H. Laird. 












L 


864. 


Mrs. 


Martha T. Laird-Rev. J. IL, 

1884. 






July 


1888. 


50 




865. 


Marion Stowell. 












J, 


866. 

867. 


Johr 
Mrs. 


i Brown, 
Judith S. Brown-John. 






Apr. 


1888. 


78 




868. 


Augusta J. Brown, 






July 


1892. 


43 




869. 


Mrs. 


Eunice A. B. Clark-E. H., 






Sep'. 


1888. 


37- 




870. 


Mrs. 


Isabel D. Goodrich-E. H. 












L 


871. 


William H. Jandro, 


Mar. 


1889. 









159 





No. 


1884. 


Dismissed. 


L 


872. 


Mrs. Cornelia Jandro-W. H., 


Mar. 


1889. 


L 


873. 


Mrs. Julia Clark-Enoch, 


Mar. 


1887. 


L 


874. 


Fred G. Laird, 


June 1885. 




875. 


Emily Sayers. 








876. 


Mary E. Barker. 








877. 


Ella M. Wentworth. 








878. 


Myron C. Stowell. 








879. 


Mrs. Janette Sayers-William, 

1885. 








880. 


Henry P. Kittredge, 


June 


1893. 




881. 


Mrs. Mary L. Dresser-Dr. S. P. 








882. 


Minnie M. Rickheit, 


Apr. 


1894. 




883. 


Grace M. Brague. 








884. 


Louie L. Sherman. 








885. 


Mrs. Hattie L. Mack-John P., 


Dec. 


1893. 




886. 


Charlotte Spring. 








887. 


Alice M. Pease. 








888. 


Carrie A. Sherman. 






L 


889. 


Mrs. Sarah C. Barker-Thomas, Sr. 








890. 


Frank W Strong, 


Dec. 


1890. 




891. 


Mrs. Ida E. Strong-F. W., 


Dec. 


1890. 




892. 


Louise C. Richards, 


Oct. 


1889. 




893. 


Arthur M. Wentworth. 








894. 


Henry Rickheit, 


Apr. 


1894. 




895. 


John L. Crossett. 






L 


896. 


Mrs. Jennie A. Benson-W. H., 

1886. 


May 


1889. 


L 


897. 


George A. Bottom, 


June 


1888. 


L 


898. 
899. 
900. 
901. 


Mrs. Alma A. Bottom-G. A., 
Charles P. Taylor. 
Merwin L. Stowell, 
Arthur T. Laird. 


June 


1888. 


L 


902. 


Mrs. Alice Archibald. 






L 


903. 


Mrs. Charlotte S. Feiton-J. W. 






L 


904. 


Mrs. Ella M. Hillier-A. N. 






L 


905. 


Mary C. Seagrave. 








906. 


Hattie E. Ascha, 


Dec. 


1894. 




907. 


Mary B. Ascha. 






L 


908. 


Mrs. Angeline O. Palmer, 








909. 


Mary Graham, 


July 


1887. 




910. 


Mary W. Goodrich. 








911. 


Fanny M. Laird. 








912. 


Sarah P. Taylor. 








913. 


Mabel E. Taylor. 






L 


914. 

915. 
916. 


Mrs. Lucinda C. Kittredge-H. P. , 

1887. 
Mrs. Mary A. Clark-Eben C. 
Mrs. Eliza Jane Brague-G. W. 


June 


1893. 


L 


917. 


John Abbott. 






L 


918. 


Mrs. Anna E. Winslow-H. L. 






L 


919. 
920. 


Winnifred Winslow, 
Sarah A. Tallman. 







Approximate Date 
op Death and Age. 



Dec. 1894. 58 



Nov. 1890. 19 



July 1887. 74 



Mar. 1893. 23 



160 





No. 


1887. 


Dismissed. 


L 


921. 


Mrs. Harriet C. Bristol-Elim N., 


Sep. 


1890. 


L 


922. 

923. 
924. 


Adeline L. Bristol. 

1888. 
John B. Woodburn. 
Henry B. Eldridge. 








925. 


Mrs. Alice A. Wentworth-Edward F 






926. 


Clara E. Tracy. 








927. 


Ada L. Went worth. 








928. 


Laura S. Barker. 








929. 


Addie Bell Benson, 


May 


1889. 




930. 


Charles C. Bartlett. 








931. 


Irving Robinson. 

1889. 








932. 


Julia Franklin. 








933. 


John R. Smith. 






L 


934. 


Mrs. Elizabeth Smith-John R. 






L 


935. 

936. 
937. 


George P. Bullis. 

1890. 
Arthur J. Dresser. 
Clara M. Watkins. 






L 


938. 


Mrs. Isabella E. Wentworth-W. P., 


Apr. 


1894. 


L 


939. 


Mrs. Helen H. Cheeseman-Edward 






L 


940. 


Azariah S. Storm. 






L 


941. 


Mrs. Emily P. Storm-Azariah. 






L 


942. 


Mary P. Storm. 






L 


943. 


Emily Z. Storm. 






L 


944. 
945. 
946. 
947. 

948. 
949. 


Katie K. Storm. 
Angie M. Dresser. 
Alice W. Plummer, 
Etta M. Solomon. 

1891. 
Luc}' M. Parsons. 
Emily J. Franklin. 




■ 


L 


950. 
951. 
952. 
953. 
954. 


William H. Eldridge, 
Celia K. Carr. 
Florence A. Burdick. 
Lura A. Mecum. 
Thomas F. Pye. 


Dec. 


1894 




955. 


Eli A. Deverell, 


July 


1893 


L 


956. 


Mrs. Anna A. Deverell-E. A , 








957. 


Florence J. Deverell, 


July 


1893. 




958. 


Mrs. Mary A. Carr-Henry. 








959. 


Mrs. Rhoda M. White-Jacob, 

1892. 


Dee. 


1S95 




960. 


Charles R. Mecum. 








961. 


Mrs. Emma I. Mecum-C. R. 








962. 


Franklin B. Cook. 








963. 


Edwin C. Beverly. 








964. 


James L. Savers. 








965. 


Mel vein II. Stowell. 








966. 


Harry Dresser, 







Appkoximate Date 
of Age and Death. 



Nov. 1890. 15 



Apr. 189;',. 38 



Dee. 189;!. 15 



161 

Approximate Date 
1893. Dismissed, of Death and Age. 

Rev. Edson L. Clark. 

Mrs. Jane E. Clark-Rev. E. L. 

Mrs. Anna L. H. Laird-Rev. J. H. t , 

Frank Bull. 

Mrs. Sarah A. Bull-Frank. 

Charles W. West. 

Nellie R. Robinson. 

Andrew C. Burdick, May 1895. 63 

Mrs. Cornelia T. Burdick-A. C. 

Minnie R. Edson. 

1894. 
William J. Parmelee. 
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Parmelee-W. J. 
Minnie B. Wilson. 
Rev. James C. Seagrave. 
Franklin W. Edson. 
EllaL Bull. 
Mary Tallman. 
John S. Cole. 
Herbert West. 
Welcome H. Watkins. 
Fred W. Cole. 
Walter C. Solomon. 
Charles Cole, Jr. 

1895. 
Ella G. Stickney. 
Rose H. Franklin. 
Mrs. Jane P. Knight-Warren P. 
Oliver J. Sawyer. 
William J. Gray. 
Mrs. Jennie Gray-W. J. 

SUMMARY OF MEMBERSHIP. 

Men admitted by profession, 222 

Men admitted by letter, 136 

Men removing residence and again returning, 10 

368 

Women admitted by profession, 362 

Women admitted by letter, 252 

Women removing residence and again returning, 13 

— 627 

Total 995 





No. 


L 


967. 


L 


968. 


L 


969. 




970. 




971. 




972. 




973. 


L 


974. 


L 


975. 




976. 


L 


977. 


L 


978. 


L 


979. 


L 


980. 




981. 




982. 




983. 




984. 




985. 




986. 




987! 




988. 


L 


989. 




990. 




991. 




992. 




993. 


L 


994 


L 


995. 



APPENDIX 

Members who have been dismissed or have removed from town, 
whose names correspond to the following numbers as far as can be 
ascertained, were living at the time of the anniversary. The oldest 
living member is No. 192 in her 98th year. Other duties prevented 
this list being ready when the book was printed. The Clerk will be 
thankful for corrections or additional information in regard to former 



members. 












243 


498 


608 


701 


771 


873 






611 


705 


774 


874 


309 


5o5 


612 


706 


778 


875 


310 


525 


624 


707 


779 


877 


312 


53i 


625 


708 


780 


880 


325 


532 


631 


709 


783 


882 


327 


533 


632 


711 


788 


885 


332 


534 


636 


713 


791 


887 


343 


535 


637 


722 


794 


888 


345 


536 


639 


723 


799 


890 


35i 


540 


640 


725 




891 


37o 


54i 


642 


728 


804 


892 


372 


544 


643 


729 


805 


894 


398 


549 


645 


733 


808 


896 




555 


646 


734 


8i3 


897 


402 


557 


655 


735 


814 


898 


403 


559 


659 


736 


815 




414 


560 


666 


740 


816 


901 


416 


56i 


670 


74i 


817 


906 


420 


562 


672 


742 


818 


914 


445 


563 


675 


744 


819 


921 


449 


564 


678 


745 


821 


922 


455 


569 


679 


746 


824 


929 


457 


57o 


680 


75i 


829 


935 


459 


574 


685 


757 


830 


938 


461 


582 


686 


758 


831 


95o 


464 


59° 


689 


760 


832 


954 


465 


59i 


691 


761 


846 


955 


470 


593 


693 


765 


852 


957 


47i 


594 


695 


766 


853 


960 


477 


595 


698 


767 


855 


961 


482 






768 


856 


9 |6 


485 


601 


700 


769 


861 


981 



JAMES HOSMER, Clerk. 
Hinsdale, Mass., Feb. 15, 1896. 



Alphabetical Index of Members, 



917. Abbott, John 

753. Abbott, Mrs. J. 

791. Abrahams, George 

792. Abrahams, Mrs. George 
54. Adams, Mrs. John 

142. Adams, John Jr. 

146. Adams, Eli 

153. Adams, Prudence 

190. Adams, Minerva 

226. Adams, William W. 

296, Adams, Mrs. W. W. 



16. Babcock, Elizabeth 

30. Babcock, Mrs John 

150. Babcock, Electa 

270. Bacon, Timothy 

719. Baldwin, Chauncey 

665. Baldwin, Mrs. Chauncey 

666. Baldwin, Caroline M. 
678. Baldwin, Catherine 
689. Ball, Mrs. Maria C. 

368. Bannister, Rev. Seth W. 

377. Bannister, Mrs. B. W. 

220. Barker, Thomas F. 

228. Barker, Asahel 

320. Barker, Mrs. Asahel 

288. Barker, Thomas F. 

889. Barker, Mrs. T. F. 

335. Barker, Belinda 

534. Barker, John B. 

748. Barker, John B. 

598. Barker, Thomas F. 

776. Barker, Mrs. Thomas F. 

876. Barker, Mary E 

928. Barker. Laura S. 

875. Barnes, Mrs. H. M. 

222. Barrows, Theodore 
460. Barrows, Mary 
529. Barrows, Myron 
556. Barrows, Celestia 
200. Barrett, Mrs. Amos 

223. Barrett, Rufus 

307. Barrett, Mrs. Thomas P. 



A 

255. 
494. 
495. 

186. 
470. 
902. 
849. 
906. 
907. 
796. 

B 

799. 
800. 
830. 
231. 
273. 
125. 
232. 
133. 
599. 
606. 
717. 
721. 
930. 
499. 

39. 

40. 

67. 
422. 
290. 
299. 
492. 
493. 
519. 
580. 
581. 
592. 
107. 
620. 
105. 
613. 
614. 



Adams, Julia A. 
Alexander, Levi 
Alexander, Mrs. Levi 
Allen, Mrs. Phoebe 
Apthorpe, Rufus 
Archibald, Mrs. Alice 
Ascha, Mrs. C. G. 
Ascha, Hattie E. 
Ascha, Mary B. 
Avery, Henry B. 



Barrett, Charles D. 
Barrett, Mrs. C D. 
Barrett, Mrs. James 
Barrett, Olive 2d 
Barrett, Matilda 
Bartlett, Julius 
Bartlett, Mrs. Julius 
Bartlett, Clementine M. 
Bartlett, Stephen 
Bartlett, Mrs Independence 
Bartlett, Almin F. 
Bartlett, Mrs. Peter 
Bartlett, Charles C. 
Barstow, Frederick 
Bassett, Isaac 
Bassett, Mrs Isaac 
Bassett, Mrs. Isaac 
Bassett, Isaac 
Bassett, Isaac A. 
Bassett, Almon 
Beals, Harvey S. 
Beals, Mrs. H. S. 
Beals, Mrs. H. S. 
Beals, Willard 
Beals, Mrs. Willard 
Beals, Martha R. 
Beals, Joseph 
Bennett, Henry C. 
Benson, Widow Mary 
Benson, Noah 
Benson, Mrs. Noah 



164: 



633. 


Benson, Dwight F. 


609: 


634. 


Benson, Mrs. D. F. 


610. 


591. 


Benson, W. H. 


611. 


896. 


Benson, Mrs. W. H. 


612. 


725. 


Benson, Alice M. 


883. 


798. 


Benson, Lily A. 


916. 


929. 


Benson, Addie B. 


877. 


281. 


Benton, James 


189. 


282. 


Benton, Mrs. James 


921. 


68. 


Bestow, Job 


922. 


963. 


Beverly, Edward C. 


234. 


754. 


Beverly, Mrs. E. C. 


817. 


383. 


Bingham, Silas 


818. 


575. 


Bingham, Mrs. Silas 


819. 


641. 


Bingham, Elizabeth N. 


820. 


668. 


Bingham, Susie H. 


832. 


757. 


Bingham, Allie L. 


866. 


720. 


Birmingham, Henry 


867. 


565. 


Birmingham, Mrs. H. 


868. 


699. 


Birmingham, Mary E. 


303. 


823. 


Birmingham, Mrs. S. G. 


970. 


101. 


Bixbee, Salmon 


971. 


102. 


Bixbee, Mrs. S. 


982. 


301. 


Bixbee, Elizabeth 


935. 


378. 


Blair, Mrs. Keziah L. 


974. 


446. 


Blake, Janette 


975. 


837. 


Bond, Annie M. 


982. 


480. 


Booth, Philander F. 


4. 


481. 


Booth, Jacob Jr. 


28. 


333. 


Booth, Mrs. Jacob Jr. 


164. 


538. 


Booth, Mrs. Lucinda 


215. 


595. 


Booth, Emily F. 


216. 


638. 


Bottom, Sarah S. 


287. 


897. 


Bottom, George A. 


412. 


898. 


Bottom, Mrs, G. A. 


413. 


777. 


Bowen, J. Clinton 


414. 


730. 


Bowen, Mrs. J. C. 


c 


60. 


Cady, Asa 


958. 


61. 


Cady, Mrs. Asa 


. 951. 


62. 


Cady, Esther 


49. 


188. 


Cady, Mrs Mary 


50. 


204. 


Cady, Abial 


806. 


205. 


Cady, Mrs. A. 


807. 


260. 


Cady, Asa 


727. 


261. 


Cady, Mrs. Asa 


386. 


339. 


Cady, Martha E. 


359. 


372. 


Cady, Eliza 


360. 


388. 


Cady, Henry 


363. 


389. 


Cady, Mrs. H. 


364. 


445. 


Cady, Elizabeth A. 


<>:!<). 


456. 


Cady, George N. 


539 


554. 


Cady, Phoebe 


126. 



Braithwaite, William 
Braithwaite, Mrs. William 
Braithwaite, Mary 
Braithwaite, Anne 
Brague, Grace M. 
Brague, Mrs. G. W. 
Bridges, Mrs. Luther W. 
Briggs, Mrs. Abigail 
Bristol. Mrs. Elim N. 
Bristol, Adeline L. 
Brown, Mrs. Obadiah 
Brown, Mrs. Lewis D. 
Brown, Helen E. 
Brown, Emma L. 
Brown, Frederick W. 
Brown, Dennis J. 
Brown, John 
Brown, Mrs. John 
Brown. Augusta J. 
Buel, Mrs. Fanny 
Bull, Frank 
Bull, Mrs. F. 
Bull, Ella L. 
Bullis, George P. 
Burdick, Andrew C. 
Burdick, Mrs. A. C. 
Burdick, Florence A. 
Burnham, Elizur 
Burnham, William 
Burnham, Mrs. W. 
Butts, Rufus 
Butts, Mrs. Rufus 
Butts, Mrs. Rufus 
Butts, Nathaniel 
Butts, Mrs. N. 
Butts, Mary 



Carr, Mrs. Henry 
Carr, Celia E. 
Carrier, Elisha 
Carrier, Mrs. E. 
Carter, Eli L. 
Carter, Mrs. E. L. 
Carter, Hannah W. 
Chapin, Mrs. Phu'be M. 
Cheeseman, Mrs. Abel 
Cheeseman, Anna 
Cheeseman, Edward 
Cheeseman, Mrs. E. 
Cheeseman, Mrs. E. 
Clapp, Mrs. K. J. 
(lark, William 



165 



192. Clark, Mrs. W. 

352. Clark, Eunice 

369. Clark, Loran C. 

411. Clark, Mrs. L. C. 

433. Clark, William, Jr. 

434. Clark, Mrs. W., Jr. 
448. Clark, Olive 

524. Clark, Rev. P. K. 

525. Clark, Mrs. P. K. 
535. Clark, Elim B. 
545. Clark, Maria A. 
559. Clark, Mrs. Maria 
589. Clark, Jane L. 

703. Clark, Edward W. 

662. Clark, Mrs. E. W. 

663. Clark, Chester 
718. Clark, Edwin H. 
869. Clark, Mrs. E. H. 
755. Clark, Lizzie M. 
873. Clark, Mrs. Enoch 
915. Clark, Mrs. Eben C. 

967. Clark, Rev. E. L. 

968. Clark, Mrs. E. L. 
464. Cole, Maria 

473. Cole, Cynthia v 

704. Cole, John R. 

705. Cole, Mrs. J. R. 
984. Cole, John Silas 
987. Cole, Fred W. 
989. Cole, Charles Jr. 
250. Colt, Oliver P. 



783. Dana, Rev. J. J. 

784. Dana, Mrs. J. J. 

514. Davis, William S. 

515. Davis, Mrs. W. S. 
530. Davis, Alvin F. 
268. Davis, Almena 

583. Davison, John R. 

584. Davison, Mrs. J. R, 

713. Davison, Walter F. 

714. Davison, Herbert M. 

430. Day, Ira 

431. Day, Mrs. Ira 
722. Day, William I. 
761. Day, Annie P. 

562. Deming, Lorenzo J. 

560. Deming, Mrs. L. J. 

642. Deming, Marian 

646. Deming, Henry A. 



111. Colt, Mrs. O. P. 

315. Colt, Lucretia 

345. Colt, Sarah J. 

395. Colt, Dr. E. Noyes 

475. Colt, Dr. E. Noyes 

396. Colt, Mrs. E. N. 

476. Colt, Mrs. E. N. 
563. Colt, Sylvia L. 
852. Collins, Mrs. E. C. 
789. Converse, Mrs. Cbapin 
734. Converse, Orissa W. 
756. Converse, Ortentia L. 
962. Cook, Franklin B. 
507. Coope, Mary 

284. Cooper, Mrs. Porter 

498. Crane, Mrs. George 

110. Crary, Mrs. Christopher 

745. Crosier, Mrs. Julia 

408. -Crossett, Truman 

895. Crossett, John L. 

883. Crossett, Mrs. J. L. 

213. Curtiss, Epaphras 

155. Curtiss, Mrs. E. 

265. Curtiss, Mrs E. 

225. Curtiss, Frederick 

355. Curtiss, Mrs. F. 

549. Curtiss, Sarah 

522. Curtiss, Mrs. Henry 

775. Curtiss, Mary J 

561. Curtiss, Mrs. Edwin 

861. Curtiss, Sarah D. 

D 

647. Deming, Mrs. H. A. 

615. Desencamper, Mary E. 

955. Deverell, Eli A. 

956. Deverell, Mrs. E. A. 

957. Deverell, Florence J. 

656. Dickinson, Samuel B. 

657. Dickinson, Mrs. S. B. 
816. Dixon, Milton 

251. Dole, Benjamin 

252. Dole, Mrs. B. 

81. Dresser, Mrs. Isaac 

98. Dresser, Leonard 

881. Dresser, Mrs. S. P. 

936. Dresser, Arthur J. 

945. Dresser, Angie M. 

966. Dresser, Harry 

458. Drowne, Mrs. Keziah W. 



166 



E 



485. Eames, Mrs. A. D. 

511. Eames, Mrs. Daniel 

981. Edson, Franklin W. 

976. Edson, Minnie R. 

924. Eldridge, Henry B. 

953. Eldridge, Mrs. H. B. 

950. Eldridge, William H. 

906. Eldridge, Mrs. W. H. 

375. Ellis, Servius 

376. Ellis, Mrs. S. 
651. Emmons, Monroe 



336. 
650. 
337. 

479. 
366. 
689. 
685. 
715. 
754. 
834. 
394. 



Emmons, Mrs. Monroe 
Emmons, Mrs. Monroe 
Emmons, Emily 
Emmons, Noadiah 
Emmons, Mrs. Noadiah 
Emmons, Mrs. Noadiah 
Emmons, David M. 
Emmons, Harris G. 
Emmons, Emma H. 
Evans, Mrs. David 
Everett, Horatio 



224. Fay, Nathan W. 436. 

214. Fay, Mrs. N. W. 280. 

483. Fay, Nathan W. 298. 

814. Fay, Edward E. 467. 

815. Fay, Mrs. E E. 468. 
903. Felton, Mrs. J. W. 731. 
409. Fergueson, Selden R. 795. 
423. Fergueson, Mrs. S. R. 932. 
477. Fergueson, Caroline 949. 
564. Fergueson, Elizabeth W. 991. 
409. Fergueson, Chauncey A. 781. 
518. Fish, Esther 668. 

671. Flint, Rev. Ephraim Jr. 207. 

672. Flint, Mrs. E. Jr. 11. 
108. Francis, Philena 23 
466. Francis, Festus 18. 
140. Francis, Mrs. Festus 63. 

G 

513. Gamwell, Amanda 38. 

700. Gaunt, John 206. 

701. Gaunt, Mrs. John 272. 
85. Geere, Eunice 319. 

600. Geer, Royal D. 317. 

6«»1. Geer, Mrs. R. D. 532. 

185. Gillett, Mrs. Sally 670. 

608. Gleason, Monroe 533. 

542. Gleason, Mrs. Monroe 649. 

759. Gleason, Mrs. W. W. 870. 

846. Gleason, Mrs. W. W. 910. 

771. Gleason. Martha B. 909. 

746. Gloyd, M.ihlon 625. 

747. Gloyd, Mrs. M. 639. 
848. Gloyd, Mrs. Benjamin 510. 

10. Goodrich, Asa 558. 

17. Goodrich, Mrs. Asa 994. 

37. Goodrich, Dea, E. H. 995. 



Francis, John 
Francis, Mrs. John 
Francis, Mary P. 
Francis, Lysander M. 
Francis, Mrs. L. M. 
Francis, Julia E. 
Francis, Mrs. C. F. 
Franklin, Julia 
Franklin, Emily J. 
Franklin, Rose H. 
Frissell, Thomas A. 
Frissell, Mrs. T. A. 
Frissell, Amanda 
Frost, Nehemiah 
Frost, Mrs. N. 
Frost, Mrs. Amasa 
Frost, Mrs. Amasa, Sr. 



Goodrich, Mrs. E. H. 
Goodrich, Sophia 
Goodrich. Lavina 
Goodrich, Elviza 
Goodrich, Mrs. E. H. 
Goodrich, A. Washburn 
Goodrich, Mrs. A. W. 
Goodrich, Chauncey 
Goodrich, E. H. Jr. 
Goodrich, Mrs. E. H. Jr. 
Goodrich, Mary W. 
Graham, Mary 
Granger, Mrs. Ella A. 
Granger, Eleanor M. 
Graves, Louisa 
Graves, Mrs. Fortine 
Gray, William J. 
Gray, Mrs. W. J. 



167 



H 



51. 


Halbert, John 


240. 


Hinsdale, David M. 


52. 


Halbert, Mrs. John 


283. 


Hinsdale, Mrs. Levi 


762. 


Hall, Minnie L. 


310. 


Hinsdale, Myra 


681. 


Haskell, Dea. Ebenczer 


371. 


Hinsdale, Mary A. 


682. 


Haskell, Mrs. E. 


398. 


Hinsdale, Elizabeth W. 


833. 


Haskell, Mrs. Martha F. 


227. 


Holland, Stephen 


557. 


Haskell, Henry C. 


294. 


Holland, Mrs. Stephen 


175. 


Haskins, Widow Abigail 


82. 


Holland, Mrs. William 


253. 


Haskins, James 


765. 


Holmes, Thomas W. 


626. 


Hatch, Mrs. Louisa H. 


766. 


Holmes, Mrs. T. W. 


157. 


Hathaway, Dolly 


660. 


Hosmer, James 


184. 


Hathaway, Mrs. Mary 


661. 


Hosmer, Mrs. James 


593. 


Hathaway, George W. 


687. 


Hosmer, Mrs. Zelotes 


594. 


Hathaway, Mrs. G. W. 


688. 


Hosmer, Mary L. 


124. 


Hawley, Rev. W. A. 


867. 


Houston, Mrs. E. 


133. 


Hawley, Mrs. W. A. 


3. 


Hubbard, Ephraim 


312. 


Hawley, Flora M. 


22. 


Hubbard, Mrs. E. 


501. 


Heath, Lorenzo D. 


210. 


Hubbard, Mrs. John R. 


735. 


Heustis, Mary A. 


679. 


Hume, Edwin 


5. 


Hibbard, Nathan 


680. 


Hume, Mrs. Edwin 


24. 


Hibbard, Mrs. Nathan 


726. 


Hume, Mrs. Richard 


904. 


Hillier, Mrs. A. N. 


64, 


Huntington, Simon 


1. 


Hinsdale, Rev. Theodore 


65. 


Huntington, Mrs. S. 


14. 


Hinsdale, Mrs. Theodore 


154. 


Huntington, Lucy 


27. 


Hinsdale, Nancy 


195. 


Huntington, Jonathan 


165. 


Hinsdale, William 


158. 


Huntington, Fannie 


176. 


Hinsdale, Mrs. W. 


42. 


Hurd, Elizabeth 


407. 


Hinsdale, Mrs. W. 


I 

503. 




346. 


Ingham, Solomon 


Irwin, James 


347. 


Ingham, Mrs. S. 


504. 

J 

32. 


Irwin, Betsey E. 


797. 


Jackson, Mrs. Richard 


Jones, Benajah 


845. 


Jackson, Mrs. Haven 


44. 


Jones, Mrs. Benajah 


871. 


Jandro, William H. 


36. 


Jones, Mrs. Eli 


872. 


Jandro, Mrs. W. H. 


193. 


Jones, Elisha 


218. 


Johnson, Sarah L. 


243. 


Jones, Sally L. 


502. 


Johnson, Baxter E. 


425. 


Jones, Otis 


505. 


Johnson, Mrs. B. E. 


426. 


Jones, Mrs. Otis 


698. 


Johnson, Clara M. 


728. 


Jones, Ellis 


808. 


Johnson, Eugene C. 


729. 

K 

318. 


Jones, Mrs. Ellis 


121. 


Kittredge, Mrs. Dr. Abel 


Kittredge, Eunice C. 


173. 


Kittredge, Miranda 


285. 


Kittredge, Mrs. B. F. 


244. 


Kittredge, Judith S. 


471. 


Kittredge, Harriet 0. 


245. 


Kittredge, Mary W. 


546. 


Kittredge, Elizabeth P. 


302. 


Kittredge, Sophronia 


547. 


Kittredge, Julia R. 



168 



548. 


Kittredge, Frances J. 


914. 


596. 


Kittredge, Eunice C. 


437. 


597. 


Kittredge, Sarah M. 


523. 


653. 


Kittredge, Catherine W. 


257. 


382. 


Kittredge, Charles J. 


41. 


415. 


Kittredge, Mrs. C. J. 


45. 


655. 


Kittredge, Ellen J. 


104. 


696. 


Kittredge, James B. 


" 992. 


733. 


Kittredge, Clara B. 


772 


880. 


Kittredge, Henry P. 


L 


786. 


Ladd, Janette 


393. 


863. 


Laird, Rev. James H. 


570. 


864. 


Laird, Mrs. J. H. 


26. 


969. 


Laird, Mrs. J. H. 


145. 


874. 


Laird, Fred G. 


152. 


901. 


Laird, Arthur T. 


166. 


911. 


Laird, Fanny M. 


300. 


209. 


Lathrop, Mrs. Erastus 


379. 


254. 


Leland, Clarissa 


804. 


295 


Lemley, Mrs. Solomon 


526. 


508. 


Lemley, Mrs. C. D. 


490. 


93. 


Leonard, Elisha 


527. 


94. 


Leonard, Mrs Elisha 


643. 


357. 


Little, Elijah L. 


203. 


461. 


Livermore, Sarah A. 


230. 


500. 


Livermore, Martin 


658. 


512. 


Livermore, Mrs. Martin 


659. 


645. 


Livermore, Rachel E. 


M 


587. 


Mack, J. T. 


160. 


588. 


Mack, Sarah J. 


182. 


709. 


Mack, John P. 


161. 


885. 


Mack, Mrs. J. P. 


269. 


841. 


Mack, Lyman 


486. 


842. 


Mack, Mrs. Lyman 


487. 


843. 


Mack, Mary E. 


773. 


55. 


Marsh, Deacon Rufus 


33. 


56. 


Marsh, Mrs. Rufus 


321. 


805. 


Mason, Mrs. H. A. 


331. 


72. 


Matthews, Sarah 


571. 


89. 


Matthews, Thomas 


573. 


99. 


Matthews, Samuel 


574. 


100. 


Matthews, Mrs. Samuel 


821. 


787. 


McAnanny, Samuel 


953. 


854. 


McAnanny, Samuel 


960. 


788. 


McAnanny, Mrs. S. 


961. 


855. 


McAnanny, Mrs. S. 


66. 


856. 


McAnanny, flattie 


380. 


127. 


McElWain, Timothy 


291. 


128. 


McElwain, Mrs. T. 


442. 


159. 


McElwain, Melinda 


443. 



Kittredge, Mrs. H. P. 
Kittredge, Abel Jr. 
Kittredge, Mrs. Abel Jr. 
Kittredge, Mrs. John 
Knight, Rev. Caleb 
Knight, Mrs. Caleb 
Knight, Joseph 
Knight, Mrs. Warren P. 
Knight, Mrs. Mary 



Lombard, Mrs. Miranda K. 
Lombard, James K. 
Loomer, Widow Lucy 
Loomis, Abigail 
Loomis, Roxauna 
Loomis, Widow Mary 
Loomis, Cynthia 
Loomis, Mrs. Nancy P. 
Loring, Fanny A. 
Loveland, Samuel 
Loveland, Mrs. Samuel 
Loveland, Mrs. Samuel 
Loveland, Sarah J. 
Lyman, Mrs. Isaac 
Lyman, Clarissa 
Lyman, Clark T. 
Lyman, Mrs. C. T. 



McElwain, Obadiah 
McElwain, David 
McElwain, Mrs. D. 
McElwain, Laura 
McElwain, George W. 
McElwain, Mrs. G. W. 
McGeoch, Mrs. Sarah J. 
Meacham, Mrs. John 
Meacham, Mrs. Lydia 
Meacham, Maria P. 
Meacham, Ambrose . 
Meacham, Mrs. Ambrose 
Meacham, Harriet 
Mecum, Albert R. 
Mecum, Lura A. 
Mecum, Charles R. 
Mecum, Mrs. C. R. 
Meeker, John 
Merrill. John 
Merrill, Mrs. John 
Merrill, Sarah L. 
Merrill, Julia A. 



169 



129. 


Merriman, Daniel 


87. 


130. 


Merriman, Mrs. D. 


88. 


247. 


Merriman, Mrs. D. 


305. 


147. 


Merriman, Addison 


306. 


148. 


Merriman, Martha 


482. 


350. 


Merriman, Henry 


212. 


361. 


Merriman, Mrs. H. 


264. 


146. 


Merwin, Mrs. Henry E. 


358. 


365. 


Miller, James 


553. 


366. 


Miller. Mrs. James 


710. 


540. 


Miller, Eliza A. 


755. 


541. 


Miller, Ellen M. 


506. 


258. 


Milliken, Robert 


78. 


259. 


Milliken, Mrs. R. 


79. 


561- 


Milliken, Sylvia L. 


235. 

N 


179. 


Nash. Hephizabah 


491. 


198. 


Nash, Elijah 


578. 


199. 


Nash, Mrs. Elijah 


579. 


211. 


Nash, Julia 


333. 


390. 


Nash, Edward T. 


472. 


391. 


Nash, Mrs. E. T. 


805. 



Moody, Chester 
Moody, Mrs. Chester 
Moody, Cotton 
Moody, Mrs. Cotton 
Morehouse, William P. 
Morgan, Julius 
Morgan, Mrs. Azubah 
Morgan, Mrs. Edwin 
Morgan, Climena E. 
Morgan. Charles A. 
Morgan, Mrs. C. A. 
Morris, Mary 
Moseley, David 
Moseley, Mrs. David 
Moseley, Mrs. Henry 



Nash, Sarah M. 
Nash, Milton 
Nash, Mrs. Milton 
Nichols, Widow Sophia P. 
Nicholson, Laura 
Nye, Alice T. 



o 



118. Otis, Mrs. Shubal 



743. 


Page, Phineas L. 


603. 


489. 


Page, Mrs. P. L. 


86. 


744. 


Page, Mrs. P. L. 


95. 


763. 


Page, Henry P. 


256. 


764. 


Page, Dwight B. 


120. 


908. 


Palmer, Mrs. Angeline O. 


236. 


163. 


Parkis, Eliza 


328. 


977. 


Parmelee, William J. 


329 


978. 


Parmelee, Mrs. W. J. 


330. 


452. 


Parish, Gordon 


454. 


392. 


Parish, Mrs. Gordon 


455. 


453. 


Parish, Elisha H. 


813. 


416. 


Parish, Mrs. E. H. 


948. 


857. 


Parish, Mrs. E. H. 


274. 


669. 


Parish, Emma J. 


275. 


858. 


Parish, Emma J. 


80. 


707. 


Parish, Ella A. 


97. 


859. 


Parish, Ella A. 


109. 


860. 


Parish, Hattie 


131. 


778. 


Parish, Albert E. 


342. 


779. 


Parish, Mrs. A. E. 


576, 


758. 


Parish, Annie C. 


577. 


13. 


Parks, Asa 


654. 


19. 


Parks, Priscilla 


667. 



Parks, Mrs. Harriet R. 
Parsons. Mrs. Lemuel 
Parsons, Lemuel Jr. 
Parsons, Mrs. L. Jr. 
Parsons, Polly 
Parsons, Mrs. Jason 
Parsons, Cynthia 
Parsons, Rebecca 
Parsons, Zilpha 
Parsons. Peter 
Parsons, Lemuel Jr. 
Parsons, Henry C. 
Parsons, Lucy M. 
Partridge, Asa B. 
Partridge, Julia P. 
Payne, Mrs. Ebenezer 
Payne, Ebenezer Jr. 
Payne, Mrs. E. Jr. 
Payne, Mrs. Daniel 
Payne, Lyman 
Payne, Lyman 
Payne, Mrs. Lyman 
Payne, Emily K. 
Payne, Lyman M. 



170 



739. Payne, Mrs. L. M. 811. 

31. Pease, Mrs. James 177. 

724. Pease, Mrs. Martha A. 178. 

887. Pease, Alice M. 143. 

8. Peck, Gideon 144. 

25. Peck, Mrs. Gideon 201. 

114. Peirce, William 374. 

151. Peirce, Sally 851. 

187. Peirce, Mrs. Rebecca E. 946. 

835. Peirce, Mrs. C. A. 266. 

103. Pierce, Asa 245. 

92. Pierce, Mrs. Asa 439. 

221. Pierce, Marshall 550. 

340. Pierce, Marshall 697. 

341. Pierce, Mrs. Marshall 836. 
297. Pierce, Lydia. 617. 

323. Pierce, El bridge G. 112. 

324. Pierce, Francis 113. 

325. Pierce, Lewis 167. 

326. Pierce, Judith M. 168. 

327. Pierce, Harriet 169. 
356. Pierce, Warren W. 605. 
397. Pierce, Christopher C. 53. 
517. Pierce, Mrs. C. C. 277. 

428. Pierce, Erastus 132. 

429. Pierce, Mrs. Erastus 278. 
531. Pierce, Charles M. 556. 
438. Pierce, Orlen N. B. 567. 
441. Pierce, Sarah 568. 
463. Pierce, Eunice 569. 
484. Pierce, Henry A. 570. 

623. Pierce, Henry A. 640. 

624. Pierce, Mrs. H. A. . 70. 
537. Pierce, Mrs. Sarah 156. 
536. Pierce, Harlan A. 435. 

551. Pierce, Clarissa B. 219. 

552. Pierce, Adeline M. 489. 
632. Pierce, Elizabeth A. 542. 
716. Pierce, Alden H. 543. 
770. Pierce, Mary E. 544. 
794. Pierce. Sarah A. 351. 

353. Pitt, Henry 312. 

676. Pitt, Henry 954. 

354. Pitt, Mrs. Henry 862. 

677. Pitt, Mrs. Henry 

R 

768. Ramage, Mrs. Adam 892. 

794. Randall, Mrs. H. T. 861. 

803. Raymond, Mrs. D. G. 882. 

116. Richards, Widow Monica 894. 

271. Richards, Betsey 292. 

459. Richards, Genc\ ra 444. 

509. Richards, Elizabeth 194. 



Pitt, William B. 
Pixley, Thomas 
Pixley, Mrs. Thomas 
Phelps, Andrew 
Phelps, Mrs. Andrew 
Phelps, Louisa 
Phelps, Mrs. Seth 
Plummer, Mrs. G. B. 
Plummer, Alice W. 
Plunkett, Charles H. 
Plunkett, Mrs. C. H. 
Plunkett, Mrs. C. H. 
Plunkett, Mary R. 
Plunkett, George T. 
Plunkett, Mrs. G. T. 
Plunkett, Mrs. Thomas K. 
Pomeroy, Josiah 
Pomeroy, Mrs J. 
Porter, Mrs. Sarah 
Porter, James 
Porter, Mrs. J. 
Porter, Eliza P. 
Post, Mrs. Ichabod 
Post, Ichabod 
Post, Mrs. Ichabod 
Post, Mrs. Ichabod 
Prince, Deacon Clark 
Prince, Mrs. Clark 
Prince, Mrs. William 
Prince, Harriet A. 
Prince, Priscilla A. 
Prince, Martha A. 
Putnam, Mrs. John 
Putnam, Sophia 
Putnam, Henry 
Putnam, Mrs. Henry 
Putnam, Julia 
Putnam, Martha A. 
Putnam, Seraph E. 
Putnam, Ophelia M 
Putnam, John 
Putnam, Mrs. J. 
Pye, Thomas F. 
Pye, Mrs. Allen R. 



Richards, Louise C. 
Richards, Mrs. Albertus 
Rickheit, Minnie M. 
Riekheit, Henry 
Roberts, Mrs. Samuel P. 
Roberts, Mary K. 
Robinson, David P. 



171 



828. Robinson, Mrs. C. C. 

931. Robinson, Irving 

973. Robinson, Nellie R. 

753. Rogers, DeEtte 

785. Roth, Mrs. William 



790. Roth, Harriet P. 

827. Roth, Hattie A. P. 

872. Rnss, John H. 

180. Russ, Mary 

702. Rust, Mrs. Julietta 



73. Sanderson, Elnathan 136. 

74. Sanderson, Mrs. E. 137. 
410. Sampson, Ira B. 162. 

12. Sawyer, Benjamin 322. 

15. Sawyer, Sarah 474. 

993. Sawyer, Oliver J. 516. 

879. Sayers, Mrs. William 607. 

875. Sayers, Emily 328. 

964. Sayers, James L. 886. 

790. Scott, Ira H. 928. 

905. Seagrave, Mary C. 2. 

980. Seagrave, Rev. James C. 71. 

712. Searle, Edson J. 488. 

478. Sears, Philip H. 838. 

414. Sears, Mrs. P. H. 829. 

708. Sears, Frederick K 774. 

711. Sears, Philip H. 990. 

825. Sears, Philip H. 940. 
780. Sears, Mrs. P. H. 941. 

826. Sears, Mrs. P. H. 942. 
691. Seymour, Mrs. Christopher 943. 

839. Sherman, William H. 944. 

840. Sherman, Mrs. W. H. 313. 
884. Sherman, Louis L. 316. 
843. Sherman, Mrs. L. L. 648. 
888. Sherman, Carrie A. 652. 

6. Skinner, Joseph 736. 

7. Skinner, Jonathan 865. 
19. Skinner, Jerusha 878. 

782. Smart, Ellen 982. 

183. Smith, Mrs. Eunice 900. 

197. Smith, Charles T. 965. 

496. Smith, Dr. Justin 853. 

497. Smith, Martha L. 75. 

933. Smith, John R. 76. 

934. Smith, Mrs. J. R. 174. 
249. Snow, Charles 304. 
387. Snow, Charles 286. 
947. Solomon, Etta M. 890. 
988. Solomon, Walter C. 891. 

T 

920. Tallman, Sarah A. 618. 

983. Tallman, Mary 619. 

420. Taylor, Rev. Edward 617. 

465. Taylor, Mrs. Edward 732. 



Spencer, Selden 
Spencer, Mrs. Selden 
Spencer, Samuel 
Spencer, Julia 
Spring, Harvey T. 
Spring, Sarah 
Spring, Harlow 
Spring, Mrs. Harlow 
Spring, Charlotte 
Spring, Mrs. E. G. 
Starr, Richard 
Starr, Lucy 
Stebbins, Thomas 
Stetson, Mrs. Francis E. 
Stetson, Louise B. 
Stevenson, Martha E. 
Stickney, Ella G. 
Storm, Azariah S. 
Storm, Mrs. A. S. 
Storm. Mary P. 
Storm, Emily. Z. 
Storm, Katie K. 
Stowell, Margaret 
Stowell, Susanna A. 
Stowell, Milo 
Stowell, Mrs. Milo 
Stowell, Martha E. 
Stowell, Marion 
Stowell, Myron C. 
Stowell, Mrs. M. C. 
Stowell, Merwin L. 
Stowell, Melvern H. 
Stowell, Sidney S. 
Street, Caleb N. 
Street, Mrs. C. N. 
Street, Mrs. Ruth 
Street, Horace 
Street, Mrs. Horace 
Strong, Frank W. 
Strong, Mrs. F. W. 



Taylor, Otis 
Taylor, Mrs. Otis 
Taylor, Abbie L. 
Taylor, Hannah D. 



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694. 


Taylor, Amory E. 


752. 


Tower, Mrs. Julia A. 


695. 


Taylor, Mrs. A. E. 


760. 


Tower, William F. 


741. 


Taylor, Lelia E. 


96. 


Tracy, Walter 


769. 


Taylor, Edward H. 


117. 


Tracy, Mrs. Walter 


616. 


Taylor, William A. 


440. 


Tracy, Widow Harriet 


664. 


Taylor, Mrs. W. A. 


414. 


Tracy, Mrs. C. K. 


899. 


Taylor, Charles P. 


590. 


Tracy, George W. 


912. 


Taylor, Sarah P. 


926. 


Tracy, Clara E. 


913. 


Taylor, Mabel E. 


432. 


Tucker, Lydia 


59. 


Thompson, Mrs. Artemas 


498. 


Tucker, Lucy M. 


457. 


Thompson, Charles C. 


602. 


Tucker, Mrs. Elmira 


793. 


Thompson, Mary 


910. 


Tucker, Mrs. W. L. 


308. 


Tinker, Russell 


406. 


Tuttle, Mrs. John M. 


334. 


Tinker, Mrs. Russell 


739. 


Tuttle, Helen 


332. 


Tinker, Mary P. 


740. 


Tuttle, Charlotte E. 


447. 


Tinker, Martha L. 


582. 


Twining, Rev. Kinsley 


381. 


Torry, Ira 


550. 


Twining, Mrs. K. 


749. 


Tower, Charles B. 


181. 


Tyler, Mrs. Persis 


824. 


Tower, Mrs. C. B. 


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134. 


Wales, Samuel 


937. 


Watkins, Clara M. 


135. 


Wales, Mrs. Samuel 


986. 


Watkins, Welcome H. 


267. 


Warner, Daniel N. 


926. 


Watkins, Mrs. W. D. 


279. 


Warner, Mrs. Dorothy B. 


106. 


Watson, Mrs. John 


309. 


Warner, Benjamin E. 


427. 


Wells, Mrs Judith K. 


328. 


Warner, Mrs. Benjamin E. 


46. 


Went worth, Daniel 


329. 


Warner, Mrs. Benjamin E. 


47. 


Wentworth, Mrs. Daniel 


119. 


Warren, Lucy 


139. 


Wentworth, Lucinda 


692. 


Warriner, Mrs. Francis 


192. 


Wentworth, Amanda 


693. 


Warriner, Sophia M. 


196. 


Wentworth, David 


384. 


Washburne, Captain Abraham 385. 


Wentworth, Mrs. David 


115. 


Watkins, Samuel 


289. 


Wentworth, Elijah A. 


241. 


Watkins, Luther 


237. 


Wentworth, Mrs. E. A. 


242. 


Watkins, Mrs. Luther 


362. 


Wentworth, Mrs. E. A. 


450. 


Watkins, Riley 


424. 


Wentworth, Milo M. 


314. 


Watkins, Mrs. Riley 


585. 


Wentworth, Milo M. 


373. 


Watkins, Mrs. Daniel 


586. 


Wentworth, Mrs. M. M. 


451. 


Watkins, Samuel 


767. 


Wentworth, William P. 


331. 


Watkins, Mrs. Samuel 


938. 


Wentworth, Mrs. W. P. 


630. 


Watkins, Henry W. 


877. 


Wentworth, Ella M. 


631. 


Watkins, Miriam T. 


893. 


Wentworth, Arthur M. 


737. 


Watkins, George M. 


927. 


Wentworth, Ada L. 


638. 


Watkins, Mrs. G. M. 


469. 


Wentworth, Austin M. 


844. 


Watkins, Mrs. Alonzo 


555. 


Wentworth, Emily C. 


627. 


Watkins, Jane M. 


644. 


Wentworth, Edward F. 


850. 


Watkins, Mrs. M. M. 


925. 


Wentworth, Mrs. E. F. 


801. 


Watkins, Lucelia M. 


675. 


Wentworth, Clara E. 


802. 


Watkins, Mrs. M. F. 


972. 


West, Charles W. 


803. 


Watkins, Mary R. 


985. 


West. Herbert 


862. 


Watkins, Virginia H. 


809. 


Wheeler, Arthur S. 


810. 


Watkins, Frank S. 


170. 


White, Harvey 


822. 


Watkins, Mrs. Harriet A. 


171. 


White, Mrs. Sally 


831. 


Watkins, Harriet R. 


276. 


White, Joseph 



173 



293. White, Mrs. Joseph 

449. White Sophia M. 

738. White, Simon H. 

629. White, Mrs. Simon H. 

370. White, Sarah H. 

417. White, Lyman 

621. White, Lyman 

418. White, Mrs. Lyman 

622. White, Mrs. Lyman 

419. White, Clarissa 
462. White, Emerancy 
959. White, Mrs. Jacob 

673. Whitman, Newton B. 

674. Whitman, Mrs N. B. 
812. Whitman, Levi L 
937. Whitman, Mrs. L. L. 

57. Whitney, Jabez 

58. Whitney, Mrs. Jabez 

683. Wilder, Wilbur F. 

684. Wilder, Mrs. W, F. 

750. Williams, Rufus 

751. Williams, Mrs. Rufus 
979. Wilson, Minnie B. 

9. Wing, Seth 

21. Wing. Huldah 

34. Wing, Elisha 

35. Wing, Mrs. Elisha 
69. Wing, Mrs. James 
77. Wing, Mrs. Elnathan 

90. Wing, Samuel 

91. Wing, Mrs. Samuel 
138. Wing, Abner 

141. Wing. Zeri 

217. Wing. Mrs. Zeri 

191. Wing, Lucy A. 

311. Wing, Austin 

348. Wing, Abner 

349. Wing, Mrs. Abner 



29. Yeomans, Moses 
202. Yeomans, Nathaniel T. 



399. Wing, Zeri 

400. Wing, Mrs. Zeri 

401. Wing, Milo 

402. Wing, Mrs. Milo 

403. Wing, Melvina 
404 Wing, Corinth 
405. Wing, Anna B. 

229. Wfsner or Warren, Susan 

918. Winslow, Mrs. H. L. 

919. Winslow, Winnifred 
48. Witter, Mrs. Joseph Jr. 

83. Witter, Septimeus 

84. Witter, Mrs. S. 

43. Wood, Mrs. Amariah 

635. Wood, William 

636. Wood, Mrs. William 
706: Wood, William F. 
723. Wood, Thomas H. 
923. Woodburn, John B. 

122. Worthington, William 

123. Worthington, Mrs. W. 
140. Wright, Rebecca 

238. Wright, Samuel 

239. Wright, Mrs. Samuel 
246. Wright, Maria 

248. Wright, Rufus M. 

262. Wright, Miller A. 

263. Wright, Mrs. M. A. 
338. Wright, Abigail 

344. Wright, Mrs. Francis 

520. Wright, Charles 

345. Wright, Mrs. Charles 

521. Wright, Mrs. Charles 
604. Wright, Mrs. Charles 
528. Wright, George M. 

637. Wright, Henry S. 
686. Wright, Martha C. 
747. Wright, William F. 

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208. Yeomans, Lucy 




